While Waiting...

While I am waiting for the end of time, or the end of civilization as we know it (like what happened in ancient Rome when the Barbarians sacked Rome) by economic collapse from the quick profit speculating hustlers, or public unrest over the gross inequality in the capitalist western world, I choose to read the Bible over and over again (different editions to ease the monotony). It is to me a book inspired by God, given to His creation, is due such devoted attention. This especially while seeking to meet Him as a living ancestor of humanity by act of the creation of our lives.
The Bible I have heard described as a love story about God's great love for His creation. I have heard the Bible called the story of God's Salvation of His fallen creation by His act of love in dying in our place on a cross. I have heard the Bible called the Word of God given humanity for its instruction in life and the reality life occurs in. I can stand all the above descriptions as partial descriptions, each a piece of the big picture the Bible is a part of, the never ending story of God and His creation, His people...
 I have been sharing Bibles with my family for years but it seems no one likes it as I do. I cannot get enough editions of the Bible but have slowed down my buying Bibles until I catch up with my reading them. I too like listening to audio editions of this Holy Book treasury of scenarios and situations as well as lessons good for us, if not created humanity even, to get acquainted with.
At times I consider it a good book and that it may have been the Jewish peoples reader for their student bodies with their Rabbi's lesson filling the Books of the Bible in use by them inherited by the Christians from their Jewish founders. It would make a wonderful reader filled with great material for many lesson plans.
Yet I still find myself believing in a life inside a living invisible God that has always existed, will always exist and must be patient as a Saint as well as quiet as a "church mouse". If we live in God imagine how much He bears with while we live our human lives complete with all some excuse as "human nature". Imagine if you were God, what would you do with your creation if it took no time to seek you, learn about you, or even try to figure out if you are real by trying to make contact, while they seek extraterrestrials instead of you?
God is as real as gravity, able to hold us in creation by our belief if we follow His advise and believe in Him. God is as real as oxygen, the stuff we need in order to live a life in His creation as His created people, His adopted children.
Without God's Grace how will anyone ever succeed in reaching home in Creation while we are coming from the depths of depraved humanity behaving like predators and tyrants over their own species. We are our own worse enemy and life as we live it is not only a misguided farce but a nightmare where hate reigns, and money rules who will eat, get medicated, receive the best humanity has to offer itself, and death is always an option to cause for some too young to be counted or too hated for any public outcry about taking their lives. We live where it is some peoples jobs to take human lives as if the allowed to spill human blood for the "good" of others. Sure the Bible prescribes the death penalty, but read Jeremiah again and tell me there is not a warning for us all in it about friend and neighbor... The death penalty seems as great a stumbling block as abortion is to me! When we are like our "villains", even to finding the shedding of blood excusable, how are we the heroes in this story? I guess some forget a necessary evil is still evil!
Back to the beginning, reading the Bible may not cure cancer, heal illnesses in general, or even help someone find a way to feed their children for another day, but it does not make matters worse, which some misguided people trying to get rid of our moral grounds and religion are surely doing even if they are doing it in the name of liberating us from childish belief in a God-hero coming to our rescue someday... Lord knows we need to be saved from ourselves. Especially from the "special ones" who want to be the ones "allowed to do" what others are not!