God Reveals Himself

It seems we argue about just about everything these days. Even the things you'd think we could all agree on, we find something to dispute over. There's always an angle that someone takes - maybe us - that wasn't apparent at first or maybe it's even completely bizarre, but here we are again, arguing about everything. 

Just the other day at work, for example, someone said it was snowing hard, almost a blizzard. I said, "Really?" My work space isn't readily equipped with windows. I walked over and barely saw anything at all, let alone a blizzard. But that doesn't mean that two minutes before when it first came up that it wasn't blowing and drifting and what have you. 

In the news recently, there has been a very well-known shooting, and someone said, "Do you even have to question if that was murder?" Well, the video shows a shooting, but a shooting is not necessarily a murder, so yes. I need more information. 

Someone can take something so innocuous as, say, acetaminophen (tylenol) and claim it's the best drug in the world and has no downsides to it, while at the same time, someone else says that medication never works for them and someone else lists a bunch of side effects they have attributed to it. 

Not even the simple things are so simple all the time. 

Did you know that not everyone likes puppies? We can't even agree on puppies. 

But the day is coming when there will be one thing we all know for certain, one thing we cannot dispute: 

That is the Lord. 

The day is coming when, like lightning flashes in the sky, the Lord will reveal Himself to everyone, all at once (Matthew 24:27).

That's not to say that we will all agree on what that means. That's not to say that we won't argue about whether that's good or bad for us. That's not to say we won't still have some folks saying it's the greatest day ever and others not so sure. That's not to say that everyone will believe Him or follow Him or love Him or anything at all. 

But everyone will recognize Him. 

Unlike the many false prophets we have had in the interim, no one will come forth and say, "That's not Him." It will be indisputably apparent that it's Him, and that may be the first thing that this world will ever come to agreement on...regardless of what happens next. That's Him alright. The whole world is going to know it. 

Maybe that's why they say that Heaven is on the other side. Because for one split second, for one breathtaking moment, we're all going to agree on something. We're all going to have the same starting point and the same perspective and the same vision right in front of us. For one breath, we will all simply know one truth - one same truth - and maybe that's the start of everything.