THE END IS NEAR
I Peter 4:7 The end of the world is coming soon. Therefore be
earnest and disciplined in your prayers. NLT
We know it’s going to happen. We know that the Lord is coming soon; we just
don’t know when. Believers have
anticipated His coming since the Church was first established. Many have tried to predict when it will
happen. Many ministries have come and
gone over trying to pinpoint when the Lord is coming. No matter how much we may believe that it’s
going to be in our lifetime or soon thereafter, no one except God knows. He keeps that information to himself. No matter how convincing the research may
seem, the Lord will come back when God determines it is time and not a moment
before.
God does not tell us when it’s going to
happen because He knows the heart and thinking of man. He knows that many would wait until the very
last moment to get right with Him instead of living in Him and for Him. He knows that the work of the Kingdom would
not get done. He knows that many would
not make it into heaven if His children were to know because they would be more
into waiting than serving.
Since we don’t know when the Lord is
coming, we should be alert and ready. We
should never be unprepared. We should
earnestly seek Him and serve Him. We
should take our duty to go into the world and make disciples seriously. We should take seriously our need to be a
holy people. We should earnestly develop
the disciplines of our faith that we might continue to grow in grace and our
understanding of Him and His ways.
We should earnestly be disciplined in
our prayer lives. There is no way we
will ever be right with God and effective in service without prayer. There is no way we will be motivated to be
witnesses for Christ in and outside of the church without a committed prayer
life. There will be no way we will be
ready at all times for the Lord’s coming without a strong prayer life. If you do not have a strong prayer life that
translates into a strong faith life, ask the Lord today to help you develop
one. Your soul and the souls of many
others are in the balance.
The end of the world is coming soon; we
just don’t know when. Many will live and
die before that day comes. It is
imperative for the eternal security of our souls that we live each day as if it
were to be today. Don’t let the Lord’s
coming for you catch you unprepared.
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