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Frightful Possibilities

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Frightful possibilities loom on our horizon these days.   Politics is scary.   International terrorism is scary.   Morality is scary.   Economics is scary.   The pressure to be afraid is on, now as never before, because our technological advances allow evil to happen on an increasingly global scale, and, also because of technology, we cannot ignore what's going on around us anymore.    There is no place to hide. Wait.   There is One place.   One secure place.   One only.   And because of that, for the Christian, fear is a wrong reaction, now more than ever.   God has been so faithful for so many millennia.   He will not change.   In this world of ever-increasing threats and challenges, He is still in control.   He knows the end from the beginning, and He is not worried.   He has already established the outcome, and, as His creation was good in the beginning, so will his outcome be in the end.    He rides in triumph over the tumultuous seas of our world, and of