The Barefoot Evangelist

Read Mark 13:1-8 with your family.

It is understandable that we want to look for warnings about dangers that might happen so we can be better prepared, but some people think everything is a warning and encourage people to live in fear. God does not want us to live in fear.

In this story Jesus tells his closest friends not to think everything bad around them and throughout the world is a warning or a sign of the world ending.

Jesus told them bad thing do happen all the time, which is sad. But just because they happen does not mean God made them happen. People make their own choices and people make choices that hurt others, sometimes by accident, and lots of time on purpose.

Jesus said none of those things mean the world is coming to an end, just that bad choices have been made.

We have to trust that God is helping wherever people are helping to make it better, and that is something that can give us hope.