Serious Times
If you've only been paying attention to the news for the last few years, you might think the world is always in a state of utter chaos. The truth is that we've had way more "big news" -- catastrophic, history-changing news -- in the last five years than sometimes happens in multiple decades.
In a downloadable PDF chart in the New York Times last fall, Ben Schott breaks down lots of what has gone on (to that point) in the five years since 9/11. In addition to providing a helpful homework source for any papers you might be working on, it's fascinating (and a little scary) to see what the world has been through in half-a-decade.
You can't avoid it. You're not growing up in the more-is-better "Me Generation" of the 80s or the navel-gazing 90s. You're becoming a person of influence in Serious Times. The lack of stability in the world means that you have a better chance than ever to make a real difference in the lives of people, especially if you make yourself available to God to be used wherever you are right now.
When Esther hesitated to use her influence to save her people because it might cost her everything, her uncle suggested that God might have put her exactly where she was at that moment for a specific reason: "And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:14)
Pay attention to who God brings into your circle of influence in the next half-a-decade. He might have big plans to impact the world through you in Serious Times.
In a downloadable PDF chart in the New York Times last fall, Ben Schott breaks down lots of what has gone on (to that point) in the five years since 9/11. In addition to providing a helpful homework source for any papers you might be working on, it's fascinating (and a little scary) to see what the world has been through in half-a-decade.
You can't avoid it. You're not growing up in the more-is-better "Me Generation" of the 80s or the navel-gazing 90s. You're becoming a person of influence in Serious Times. The lack of stability in the world means that you have a better chance than ever to make a real difference in the lives of people, especially if you make yourself available to God to be used wherever you are right now.
When Esther hesitated to use her influence to save her people because it might cost her everything, her uncle suggested that God might have put her exactly where she was at that moment for a specific reason: "And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:14)
Pay attention to who God brings into your circle of influence in the next half-a-decade. He might have big plans to impact the world through you in Serious Times.
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