Trusting in Christ\u2019s soon return and our ultimate victory is what will sustain us in these days of disillusionment with some of our national leaders, the devaluing of our money, and the devastation of wars being fought on various continents at the same time. And don\u2019t let some television talk-show host play on your fears in order to promote his or her ratings. <\/p>\n
Jesus said, \u2018Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a024:42\u00a0NASB) Admiral James Stockdale was a prisoner of war for eight years in Vietnam. What sustained him? He said: \u2018I never lost faith in the end of the story. I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.\u2019 When asked, \u2018Who didn\u2019t<\/i> make it out?\u2019 Stockdale replied: \u2018Oh, that\u2019s easy. The optimists\u2026 they were the ones who said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to be out by Christmas.\u201d And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they\u2019d say, \u201cWe\u2019re going to be out by Easter.\u201d And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart.\u2019 <\/p>\n
The courage needed to stand between the two extremes of current trouble and ultimate triumph is found in these words of Scripture: \u2018Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.\u2019<\/i> (Hebrews\u00a012:2\u00a0NKJV) The One who gave you your start has guaranteed you a glorious finish. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trusting in Christ\u2019s soon return and our ultimate victory is what will sustain us in these days of disillusionment with some of our national leaders, the devaluing of our money, and the devastation of wars being fought on various continents at the same time. And don\u2019t let some television talk-show host play on your fears […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}