Joy and Strength (Christian life and music)

The End Times are not the same thing as the Last Days.  We've been in the Last Days since Jesus died and rose again. The End Times include the Great Tribulation and all that leads up to it.   People throughout the ages have thought, "This is it!  The world is coming to an end!" World events, natural disasters, wars and such have all led people to believe that God's will was coming about in the form of the End Times. I'm not here to argue the timing of Christ's second coming - His coming before, during, or after the Great Tribulation.  I am here to hopefully help you prepare in case we are facing the End! Here's a non-exhaustive list of what I think it's going to take to be a true Christian in the End Times: 1. Stay close to Jesus (if you're not saved yet, get saved today!  Ask Jesus into your heart) 2. Pray a lot 3. Understand that as the world gets worse, we are not to despair but know that everything that happens is under God's absolute power

Is this hard to swallow, considering the shape our world is in? What people don't realize is that the further they get from God, the worse the world's condition will be. People are waiting too long to come to Jesus.  If you wait too long, your despair may take you down paths you don't want to go. As things "heat up" in our world, it will boil down to this: you either will cling more closely to Christ or you will move farther away from Him. You will get angry because He is causing natural events all over the place and your mind won't be able to figure it out. You're not up with the times we live in.  If you're going by the news reports, what you read online, what you see and feel in your own life - the increasing fear and hatred or indifference you may see even just going to the grocery store (where is the joy?) - none of what is about to go down will make sense to you. The human mind wasn't meant to comprehend history or current events in its own r