God and the Millennium's end

Foreword: This essay was written over 20 years ago, however its relevance has not changed. Based on that I decided to publish it here. Enjoy the reading!

"Why do you boast in evil, o mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually. Your tong devises destruction like a sharp razor working deceitfully. You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking righteousness." Psalm 52:1-3

The millennium is coming to an end. Television, newspaper and the media in its entirety bring in an avalanche of retrospectives over us, replaying sounds and images and awakening feelings we have experienced firsthand as the years developed. An uneasy feeling takes over as we realize that so little of this ocean of happenings was under our own control.

Great number of painful events is being recalled. It all appears hopeless, but in my uncertainty I still prefer to believe that there is a God watching over us, as we tiny creatures that we are, try to overcome the daily battles that becomes our history: the faces of war, the sorrow of our losses, the frantic movement of our days, the brutal instict revealed as some of us kill, distort and hurt our kind.

I ask myself what happened to the human soul across the millennium. What have we tried to achieve? Mesmerized I perceive a great lack of belief spanning from our private lives to the collectiveness of the world's nations. It seems like so little holds us together. There are price tags and fake smiles every where we turn. Faith seems to echo no more. It's a sad perspective. A void so hard to fill.

If we only would turn to God! His ever patient heart keeps on waiting for us. if our eyes were on him, we would certainly think twice before dispersing seeds of hatred, greed and discontentment over our planet.

In His infinite heaven He is willing to recruit whoever is willing to remind the rest of us about his perfect goodness. The world, however does not seem interested in hearing. We'd rather sit back and keep on streaming daily doses of violence, discord and cynicism being fed directly into our devices. Will the world keep on feeding on its own bitter nectar forever? When will we give goodness a chance?

One thing we have learned for sure: There is an end to everything. And I trust that at the end of our history, God will be there. Truth will be revealed and evil will be crushed. Life will be pure. Beauty will overcome the Beast. This is a promise we have had from the infancy of our journey in this planet we call Earth.

The millennium as we know is about to close its door never to reopen again. The lessons we have learned through it will be like a tree flourishing in what we are. The type of fruit it will produce is entirely dependent on the choices we make: we can embrace things that are lovely and not those that condone hatred, we can choose to do good onto one another and not despise, to love and not destroy, to seek peace and not discord. If we accept God's grace all these things are possible.

God holds all tomorrows in his eternal hands. Our denial of His presence only hurts our own selves. He is the author and finisher of our History. Only when we decide to place our hearts on him we will have answers to satisfy all questions that our human souls have been searching to find across the ages. He created us for a higher purpose. Millenniums will come and go. He was there at the beginning, He will be there at the end. And He is here now. In God's calendar time never ends.