This post is long past due. I hope this can bring some hope into someones life, and maybe a little more understanding for some.
Growing up I was always terrified of the second coming. I didn't want it to come. I knew a lot of bad things were going to happen and I knew that life would be different. I was enjoying myself. I wasn't making good choices and I wasn't living a life that I should have been living. I didn't want life to be different. I wanted to grow up the way I wanted to, I wanted a family and I wanted to raise them in the church but not necessarily strong members. I didn't want the second coming to come because I thought my freedom would be taken away. I hope that in writing this I can help who ever reads it to understand that your freedom will not be taken away, it will be greater when Christ comes again. Do not make the same mistakes I made in thinking that life is going to suck when Christ comes. It is not going to suck, it is going to be the most awesome thing you could ever imagine.
There are many signs that we learn about from the scriptures. Wars, rumors of wars. The world is literally basically going to fall apart with earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, you know the whole works. It is going to be scary. But it says in the scriptures not to worry! We are not suppose to be afraid. We need to have faith. We need to pray for strength to make it though these hard times. Christ will comfort us. We need to prove to him that we will be faithful and that we will stand up for what we believe no matter what. We have to endure to the end. The end will be tough, but if we do not have strong testimonies it will be much more tough.
There are many questions that we have that Christ answers in the scriptures. We need to study those answers. They will not only help our testimonies grow but if we pray about them they will help us to feel at ease with the second coming. I Hope this has inspired you to strengthen your testimonies, to look deeper inside yourself to understand why you believe what you believe. Don't live for today only, live to make your life a life that you can smile about.
