Last Days' Thinking

    I had a student say to me today, "You are a Christian aren't you?" He then asked me if I knew about the end times when Satan would be released from his chains. I didn't correct his timeline on end times events as I was curious about where he was going with it. He wanted to know if I thought we were in the end times. We got interrupted by other students and a transition into another class, but later I pondered what he said before we parted. He lamented, "I hope it doesn't happened before I get my new phone."
     Now this student is only 12 years old, so I can understand his youthful reasoning, but am I an adult with a similar outlook? Do I really want Jesus to return or do I want to get all my worldly goods collected before I go to heaven? Do I believe that I need to get in all my fun before I go to heaven? What do I believe about my purpose in living now and what will be next in eternity with the Lord? 
     Unfortunately, after pondering this boy's comment, I wondered if I may very well be as double minded. Having one foot grounded in the world and my other just barely toe deep into the Living Water of the Word. Is my focus the next best thing, the biggest and brightest, rather than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and God's ancient Holy Book? Forgive me Lord for my out of focus thinking, actions, words, and deeds. Amen.

2 Timothy 3:15 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.