Today there will be some changes in the program here in Kampala. Until now we have had meetings in the church of Bro. Bolahs. The desire for meetings in other places has been strong, and today we will travel to another place about 4 hours drive from Kampala. The plan was to continue here in town, but another pastor asked if possible to get only one meeting with his group. So today we are going out there. On Saturday we are scheduled to another place about 3 hours from Kampala. There will be two meetings. These two churches are not so far apart, only one hour drive so we will stay overnight in one of these cities. So there is some movement of suitcases and paraphernalia. We’re going back to our guesthouse again on Saturday night here in Kampala, as it is meetings here both Sunday and Monday.
We experience a wonderful time here and a great confidence in both preaching and practical guidance through conversations and experiences that we have had through the years. The Lord works the same way through in the hearts of souls; everywhere on this earth. We may have different skin color and upbringing, but the inner life does not differ particularly from one another. I have said it often, the difference between Abraham’s time and our time is mostly camels and horses, versus the cars and planes. Scrolls and stone tablets to computers and other modern storage materials. The technology has been greatly developed, houses and settlements are quite different from the days of Abraham, as they mostly lived in tents. But I also see the very very basic living conditions, when I travel around the world.
Some live almost on Abraham’s old way even today, and not in what we call the modern innfrastruktur. But if there is a drawback to it, is sometimes debatable. I sometimes see more happy faces and simple trusting eyes of those humble souls, than in the modern hectic conditions as many live. Time squeeze out much of the simple joy that can be found in lesser conditions. You may wonder whether it was desirable to set the clock back to ancient times. I mean it is not. The development has led us to make everyday life easier in many ways, but it has also challenged our basic trust in the spiritual world, and inputed a doubting attitude to everything else than what one can touch and feel. Materialism has taken over management of the fellowship, and the spiritual experience has lost the battle on the cost of evolution terms.
Such was foretold that it would be. Love will grow cold . Noah and Lot’s days would come back again. The same attitudes that prevailed then, is going to grow even more in our modern times. When we look at this development, then one can wonder how far the Lord will allow the condition to go. Billy Graham said in the seventies, that now the Lord must come soon, otherwise he would have to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and ask forgiveness to them whom went under at that time. But Mr. Graham probably did not know how bad the condition was then. It must have been terrible. Things have certainly evolved drastically over the past 40 years and the prospects for recovery is not in sight in any way. We can say as John says in Revelation, Lord come quickly.
