Look and Be Amazed!

December 19, 2024

From Pastor Eileen States

Look around at the nations; look and be amazed! For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn’t believe even if someone told you about it.(Habakkuk 1:5)

This message from the Lord given to Habakkuk in his day is a promise I choose to believe and claim for those of us finishing out the 2024 calendar year. I recently heard testimony of God’s hand at work through the ministries of Adventist World Radio and Jesus for Asia. I have also listened to some of your own stories here in the MAC community. Praise God, He is at work in the lives of His people. 

There is so much brokenness and evil in the world it is easy for me to wonder where God is at work. However, Jesus told us these days would come. Matthew 24 clearly depicts the very times we are living in. There is no need for alarm. Instead, I want to be “the one who stands firm to the end” no matter the circumstances (vs 13).

To my church family: As we celebrate the season of Jesus’ first Advent to earth, I want to encourage you to not abandon your hope and faith in the imminent second Advent of our Lord and Savior. As we embark on a spiritual journey of reading through the Bible together in 2025, it is my prayer that God will prep the soil of our hearts and plant seeds that will be deeply rooted in His story of salvation from Genesis to Revelation. May God shine His light on each of you as you walk with Him each day. 

Pastor Eileen