Overpopulated?

We hear a lot from the liberal media about the world’s expanding problems. We have been told since World War II that the world is overpopulated. But has that ever been verified? Is the media correct?

It is interesting that someone took the time and effort to calculate that the world is not overcrowded. That is not to say that many areas do have a population problem but it is not a world problem. Let me explain. If we took the world’s population (6 billion] and place them in the city limits of Jacksonville, Florida [885 square miles or 22 billion square feet] which works out to just under 4 square feet per person. (Standing room only)

I am sure no one could live in such a condition but add the fact North America actually has more wilderness than Africa. While almost 40% of North America is wilderness, only about 30% of Africa is. Over 82% of Canadian land is mostly untouched by humans.

So, it is not an overpopulation problem but rather a logistics problem.

{Now you know!}

Insignificant

I would imagine most of us have read or heard the story of Christmas hundreds of times. We probably just skim over the verses, telling ourselves we already know the facts. But for those who were present, the event probably did not have the significance as it does to us. Many of things than made up this story were “insignificant” to the people of that day.

From the human standpoint, there was nothing special about Jesus’ birth. Mary and Joseph were poor, ordinary people having a baby, yet this event was the most significant incident in human history. I did a Google search of the most significant incidents in human history and the birth of Jesus Christ was not even mentioned. The greatest event of all history, God becoming man did not make the list! Neither the Jerusalem Gazette nor the Nazareth News covered the story. To them it seemed insignificant.

Yet what appeared to be insignificant; had eternal importance. I wonder how much “insignificant” events fill our lives. I do not believe in coincide for the Christ follower. The Word of God teaches that God “orders the steps” of His children. This Christmas season, look for the “insignificant” they might just be God working in your life!

Home For Christmas

It was during WWII that singer Bing Crosby released a song, as if written from a “G.I.” far away from home at Christmas, it shot up the music charts and has remained a Christmas classic ever since. Part of the song says,

“Christmas Eve will find me

Where the love light gleams

I’ll be home for Christmas

If only in my dreams

 

How well I remember Christmas 1968 as I was flying over the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. Armed Services Radio broadcasted Christmas music to try and alleviate our homesickness. It is hard being away from home during the holidays. One of the great ironies of the bible is that almost everyone in the first Christmas wasn’t home for the holidays. The angel Gabriel left heaven to announce to Mary that she would be the mother of Jesus. Joseph and Mary left their home in Nazareth and traveled to Bethlehem to give birth to their Baby. And of course, the Magi were a long way from home to see the newborn King.

Most important, the baby Jesus Himself was far from His heavenly home at the first Christmas. But there was a reason that all these were far from home – it was so we could find  our way back to our true home with God. As wonderful as it is to be home at Christmas there is still something in us that tells us we are not home yet. The Bible says we are strangers and pilgrims of earth.

 
As we celebrate  the first coming of Jesus don’t forget the fact that we’re not yet in our true and eternal home. So, keep focused on His Second Coming and your eternal, heavenly home.