I need this time with You this evening, Father. Draw me close, clear my mind of everything but You and Your word. Amen.
Matthew 24:26-35 (<<click to read the passage)
To my recollection, one of the most intense experiences of lightning was riding with a group of men in a passenger van as we were returning from a Promise Keepers’ event in Pittsburg several years ago. I don’t know how the driver could even see where he was going, the rain was torrential and it seemed, to me at least, that the lightening just didn’t let up! It lit up the night sky with great ferocity and with its accompanying thunder it was quite the experience!
If you are in even close proximity to a thunderstorm, you have no question at all of what is happening!
In reading some of the commentary on this portion of Scripture in my study Bible*, I read a sentence that is just great! In regard to Christ’s return, it says, “If you have to be told that the Messiah has come, then he hasn’t.” It then refers back to verse 27,
“For as the lightning flashes in the east and shines to the west, so it will be when the Son of Man comes.”
[“Son of Man” is a title Jesus used for himself.]
Jesus Himself said,
“So if someone tells you, ‘Look, the Messiah is out in the desert,’ don’t bother to go and look. Or, ‘Look, he is hiding here,’ don’t believe it!”
When Jesus returns – and He most assuredly will – we will all know. And ready…or not…that’s where we will find ourselves. May we all make our decisions now, while there is still time. When He returns, time will be up.
*Life Application Study Bible New Living Translation
Oct 24th, 2018, Wed, 6:10 pm
