The Big Picture
“But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” – 1 Pt. 4:7-8
“There comes a moment when the children who have been playing at burglars hush suddenly: was that a real footstep in the hall ? There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him ? We never meant it to come to that ! Worse still, supposing He had found us ?” – CS Lewis
I follow the news like everyone else, and like everyone else, I have a filter in my attention span that captures certain stories. I saw a headline yesterday that caught my eye: “An apocalyptic storm is forming over the Middle East” – Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his speech to the U.N. last week by praying for Allah to hasten the coming of the Islamic Messiah, which according to his theology requires the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization as we know it. Iran has just spent the weekend testing its most advanced missiles capable of reaching Israel. Being in the entertainment business, one cannot ignore the fact that a very large percentage of the people that control this industry are Jewish, any news coming out of the Mideast seems to dominate any serious conversation when it comes to world events.
I remember touring in the mid sixties and just wanting to play music and have a good time. I picked up the paper one morning and the headlines read “Israel at war, are we entering the apocalypse ?” It was 1967 and I was 19 years old just at the beginning of my career in the rock industry, the last thing I wanted to hear is that the world might end, the news put a crimp in my very vain and self-absorbed life style that I had grown accustomed to. At the time, I had no idea of what the six day war really meant, but I intuitively had a hunch that my rock ‘n’ roll world had just become a little smaller and less significant in the scheme of things. Today and over a million miles later I finally get it, the Mideast thing is a time piece that is constantly ticking and reminding us all that this world is winding down. Should we all run to a cave and wait for the world to end ? I don’t think so, unless we are suppose to go to Hawaii or some tropical paradise where Macadamia nuts are in abundance………. What it does mean to me is that it would be wise to open our eyes to the big picture of what is going on in the world. I think the underlying message is simply to know who we are, and live more passionately, realizing our purpose whether we are a rock star or a shoe maker.
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