Surviving What Is Coming In the Very Near Future

• Surviving What Is Coming In the Very Near Future
  by Dave Hodges, https://thecommonsenseshow.com/home
  I was positively shaped by my academic and athletic experiences as a child, a teen and an adult. I was blessed to have had parentally instilled discipline to become the most I could be as a student, an athlete, a teacher, a professor, an athlete and later a coach. I wasn’t the smartest, the most innovative, the fastest and I certainly never warmed up to illegitimate authority and bad leadership.  However, I was resilient. I could apply myself to overcoming barriers to success with such tenacity that I eventually would overcome the obstacles to success and I certainly knew how to bounce back from defeat with a renewed vigor and tenacity. No, I am not bragging, I am reflecting about how the generations have become weak and drifted away from God. I am also warning about whatever traits of resilience that I possess are not enough to survive what is coming. I, we, all need the guidance and protection of the Lord. However, the weakness of the younger American mindset will prove devastating in terms of meeting the national challenges. We are destined for national failure on a catastrophic nature. I know that this is not a popular view, but this is not Hollywood. The Bible tells us exactly what is coming and we arrived at the beginning of the prophecy for the End Days.
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  I grew up on many military bases. My friends, my fellow students, my teammates and the athletes I coach were mostly the same way. We were the sons and daughters of America’s greatest generation. My parents overcame a crippling depression, two formidable military opponents and faced down the tyrannical Soviet Union and did not blink. My parents were a younger part of a generation that did not accept defeat and fully understood how to bounce back from setbacks, and they had a lot of practice honing the personality skill known as resilience which is the most under-researched of all personality attributes. As an adult, I was so shocked by the lack of collective resolve and mental toughness of the  generation that followed me, I dedicated my thesis efforts to researching the essential elements of resilience found in individuals that overcame great challenge, and I must admit that I was not surprised in the least by what I found. More on that later…
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  My generation was a little softer than our parents, but the generations that followed, lived on the momentum that was created by the World War II generation and each generation was softer than the previous. As a country, collectively speaking, we have become so soft, so lacking in mental toughness and moral fiber (with some exceptions), that I thank the Lord that the bulk of our countrymen were not around in 1776 for we would still be a colony of England. If our present set of emerging adults were around in 1941, we would be flying the Nazi flag over Washington DC. And we are approaching the point where we might as well fly the hammer and sickle over DC, because this is what our self-absorption, apathy, laziness, ignorance, lack of discipline and distinct lack of moral character derived from not obeying the teachings of Jesus, has led us to.
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  What I have come to realize that all the work that I have done in trying to meet challenges and setbacks has served me well, at the end of the day, or should I say … at the End of Days, it will only be my faith in Jesus that will save me.
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