When will time expire?? We read of the account of the Flood ...that of Sodom and Gomorrah ...the ultimatum at Nineveh ...and the dreadful foretelling of End Times.

Whether we consider our individual time to expire, or a much greater End Times on a grand scale ...our purpose here on earth may not be just to warn others, as in most of these sort of times people don't readily heed warnings.

What then should we do??

I would not just want to sit idly by ...and say, "Well, that's on them ...I told them so!!"

It seems that we can inform without warning ...perhaps the warning could come later, but would that be careless and considered warning too late??

Perhaps it doesn't matter so much ...if people don't consider you credible anyway.  They don't really believe in the Bible, and your beliefs to them are not much different than Santa Claus.

But, that is not a true observation ...people don't get offended if you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or little elves. Yet, Santa Claus even has been developed as a character who cares whether you've been naughty or nice.  With the Easter Bunny, other than being charitable, there seems to be no conditional aspect to it.  I don't really know who hatched that idea, but rabbits passing out eggs ...are we to assume they made friends with the chickens, or did they steal the eggs??

People seem not to be offended when politics try to define our values, but are very much so when our values try to challenge our politics.

We live in a society where love is considered more equivalent to allowance than it is to commitment.

Allowance is not the same as tolerance, but it is often spoken in the same voice.  Tolerance does not mean I change my point of view ...but rather allows me the commitment to attempt to work with those I disagree with.

The true intolerant are those who refuse to discuss or work it out ...but all they want is allowances, not any real commitment.

When commitment is metered ...that brings us to have to discuss how we measure or regulate it, and how we also bring love into the picture.