WAITING FOR THE WORLD TO END
March 10, 2011
WHAT TO DO WHILE WAITING FOR THE WORLD TO END: The 12 Noble Steps. by Fritz Springmeier
(for henrymakow.com)
This beginning article is written to everyone no matter who you are or what your religious persuasion. It is a challenge to ennoble your life by climbing the 12 Noble Steps, your own selection of Peace Corp like projects. As excellent climbers challenge themselves with the Seven Summits Quest, which is to scale the highest peaks of each continent (Mt. Everest, Mt. Elbrus, Denali, Kilimajaro, Aconcagua, Antarctica's Vinson Massif, and Indonesia's Carstensz Pyramid), likewise we can have the noble goals of improving 12 vital mountains of human need. Make a significant contribution in each mountain of need.
Here are the first 7 mountains of need--which are the first 7 steps of 12 steps.
Significant Contributions to:
1. improving air
2. improving the water
3. improving humanity's energy
4. improving humanity's love
5. hope
6. improve humanity's shelter
7. improve the soil
To make a significant contribution demands you challenge yourself and use your imagination. You can do it. But it won't be easy, or someone else will have already done it. But you can do it. You can quit watching your life waste away and you can do acts that will make you life worthwhile and honor your core values.
There will be a certain set of Christians (often Pretrip Dispensational Premillenialists) who are anxiously praying for the world to end, and would prefer to watch circumstances deteriate and complain about the PTB bringing in a gruesome Brave New World, a high-tech NWO. To these, the Word orders Christians to "do all things without complaining" (PHIL 2:14) and to think on noble things.(PHIL 4:8)
In fact, Philippians 4:8 is worth quoting to everyone, Christians and non-Christians alike. It says, "Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, WHATEVER THINGS ARE NOBLE, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things."
So put your imagination and creative God-given energy into one of these mountains of need. Many of the same traits needed to scale Mt. Everest will be needed to complete a noble step, such as dedication, tenacity, and focus.
Anyone can take up the challenge, but not everyone will be up to the challenge. This isn't a government sponsored peace corp program; it's your own creative project. For instance, there was once a peace corp volunteer who taught a Mexican village how to raise high quality marketable apple orchards. It took over five years.
In the framework of The 12 Noble Steps, instead of looking to the government to sponsor these things, your own divinely-breathed positive energy will create the impetus. And it may often be that your summit will be economically rewarding, for true economic growth depends upon satisfying the needs of people--food, water, love, etc. So these summits will also have the side effect of economic blessings. And as you summit you can involve businesses in these goals, and if you have no money you may join up with those with money, or perhaps be the recipient of grant money that is waiting for noble souls like yourself.
You will meet other 12 Noble Steppers in coffee shops and share a common bond. You will be different from the masses who despise their lives, and punch their time clocks, and spend quiet lives of desperation occupying space and consuming food, yet remain merely consumers.
But not you. You will transform and fulfill yourself, and attain your nobility. Your personal adventure will be an inspiration for others. You will permit your talent to grow. And the melody of joy and life will run through your veins and your noble heart and you will feel alive like never before as you reach for the summit. "A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul..."PRV 13:19
Not all mountain climbers admire other climbers or even approve of their mountain climbing methods. The 12 Noble Steps is about you and your goal. No one may be around or see you in the summit clouds, but you'll know. And no one operates in a vacuum. ("A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps." PRV 16:9) You are the one who will feel the joy of accomplishment. History is full of accomplishments.
How many Americans have been blessed by Carnegie's libraries that he built nationwide? Another one, the creation of the Northern Pacific railroad in the 1880's transformed worthless, unused land in Washington Territory into booming economic centers producing crops, wood products, iron products, coal and minerals. There are limitless ways to summit.
Whether Carnegie or Northern Pacific are heroes in your eyes is not the issue. They felt good about their accomplishments. You may ask, "How do I know I've summited a Noble Step??" And I say, you will know because you yourself will be satisfied with the contribution, whether others recognize it or not. Let's say, as Einstein you make an energy contribution with your E=M times C squared equation. If you, Mr. Einstein, realize the contribution, then the step has been reached. And if you want to climb that mountain again, then power to you. Keep contributing to mankind. One small step for man, one leap for mankind.
So all of you life-enhancing triumphal spirits, pioneers of humanity, you are challenged to fertilize our existence with your noble steps. May you go forth and raise humanity to better things. LEAVE OUR WORLD A BETTER PLACE.
Ron said (March 12, 2011):
I just want to thank Fritz for writing " Waiting for the end of the world" and you for publishing it.
I am not particularly religious(never did get the Christian story in a literal sense), however that doesn't mean that I can't recognise and appreciate the great role that Christianity has played in the world with it's central message of service to one's fellow man. That is the route to a meaningful life,which I wouldn't mind betting is what any divinely ordained religion is about really, beyond the beliefs and rituals.
Fritz has written something truly inspirational perfectly suited to all times not just the times some people are expecting the world to end.