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“…May 21, 2011, is Judgment Day, upon which the righteous – which totals 3 percent of humanity – will be whisked away to the sweet hereafter, leaving the rest of us to weather five months of extreme natural disasters until Oct. 21, whereupon God destroys the entire universe and everyone left in it.”
Lifted from the csmonitor.com article Judgment Day May 21: When will the world actually end?, the statement above, for some, serves as a warning. While for the other some, it’s an awful exaggeration of ridiculous assumption.
Who has the power to tell that the world will come to its end this weekend? Saturday, May 21, 2011. Oh, we were supposed to be in an Ilocos tour! Nope, it can’t be the end of the world because on September I’ll be spending my birthday in Boracay! No, it can’t be doomsday on October 21 because our faith in Him will never have us believe that He will destroy everything on Earth.
What do we get from these predictions? What can these assumptions do to us? Scare the hell out of each of us? Push us to live life to the fullest? Take the last one.
The recent calamities that hit Japan, New Zealand, Australia; the civil unrest in Libya, in Egypt — all of these took hundreds of lives. For people who had experienced these adversities, they had a share of what doomsday could be like. But life went on for those who had survived. And if the fear of this Judgment Day coming would tear their hopes apart, it’s unforgivable.
Nobody is perfect. No one lives a perfect life. It’s either you have too much or you have the least of everything. If the doomsday will come in May 21, what will you do? If the world does not end on Saturday (or in Oct. 21 as these predictions claim), what will you live for?
If I ask you now, what do you live for? You have heard of this question before but has your answer changed? In my tumblr account, I say I’m a hopeful soul who lives to love and who loves to live. I live for life itself and everything it hands to me.
Pray. Have faith.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. — Psalm 46:1-3
