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From Eliyahu:

Shalom friends,

Unless you have been languishing in prison for the last 10 years, you've experienced a massive amount of change over the course of the last decade or so. Not only that, but the rate of change is exponential, so much so that it is impossible to keep up with all of the major technological changes, let alone social, economic and political changes. This last decade has moved so fast, with so many major events and inventions whizzing by, that its all pretty much a blur to most of us. This break-neck rate of change has set up a launchpad for more profound changes in the decade before us. It is quite likely that the world ten years hence from now, will look completely different from anything any of us have ever known before. There are lots of guesses out there about what's coming, but there is also a lot of uncertainty, and even anxiety, about those guesses.

Adapting to such rapid change challenges each of us personally. I recently read an article entitled "Why millennials are the most anxious generation in history" that starts out by making this interesting connection between modern technology and rising anxiety among the tech-savvy younger generation:

   Keeping too many tabs open will drain your batteries, my five-year-old daughter likes to remind me before helpfully offering to close them.
   It might be a ploy to get her hands on my phone, but it is also a neat metaphor for modern life: many of us are running around with too many tabs open inside our heads. We constantly toggle between screens, compulsively check social media, multi-task and then cancel commitments because we are so exhausted.
   So it’s no surprise recent studies have declared millennials, especially women, the most anxious generation in history. [Vogue (Australia Edition), Jan 2018]

Too many tabs open in your head. Keeping all options open while settling on none. How can you choose one thing when there are a million possibilities instantly available to you on your phone or computer screen? How can you know which of them should get your full attention? What happens if you commit to something and it turns out to be wrong? There always seems to be a better choice, but you can't be sure which one is the best - so you do nothing, or everything - because you can't be sure which way to go. This surely is a metaphor for many in this modern world.

Some see the hi-tech marvels of this age as a good thing, and certainly they can be if they are used as tools that aid us in healthy ways. Unfortunately, too often all the data that those marvels keep spewing at us heaps up around us as a wall of confusion that blocks out the light, keeping us in darkness, in useless busyness, not knowing or sometimes not even caring which way we should go. If you don't get a grip on this you will atrophy into oblivion.

Here is the big secret: the things that matter most NEVER change! Those things are T-R-U-T-H! Bedrock TRUTH. If your life is focused on, and directed by, the unchangeable Truth then you will not be substantially damaged by all the change around you. In fact, you will thrive, and you will be a light to those around you who are lost in the growing darkness of modern confusion. That Truth, that Way you need to follow, has been personified in a Person. I'm not speaking of the figure you see in pictures, statues, or religious mythology. Of course I am speaking of the Son of God, Yeshua Messiah. I'm speaking of the real Lord of Life Himself. Close all the other tabs and choose to follow Him! If you let Him, He will lead you - you personally. He is the only Way.          

Shalom,

Eliyahu
Tsiyon.Org

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Organized Christianity has lost its way. The Church, once seen as the bastion of morality, is now largely seen as the height of hypocrisy, and is routinely held in contempt on the public stage. 70% of high school graduates leave the Church and never come back. Already weakened and struggling to retain some relevance, since 2015 Evangelical Christianity has suffered from massive increased pressure from the Globalists to cave into the LGBT leftist agenda. Major denominations have withered under the assault, as have a growing number of prominent Christian organizations of all kinds. For example, just last month, Chick-fill-A became a case in point, as reported by Life Site News and other news outlets: 

For years Chick-fil-A has risen [through] the fast-food ranks thanks in no small part to its proud Christian identity. But in a stunning reversal, the chicken restaurant announced Monday that it will end charitable donations to several Christian groups branded by pro-LGBT activists as “anti-gay.” [lifesitenews.com, 11/18/2019]

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