Luke 12:35-40 (ESV)
You Must Be Ready
“Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
We must be ready. In the above passage we read Jesus’ words about His future return to the earth. He very much taught the disciples of His return. The most popular teaching about it was in John:
John 14:1-3 (ESV)
I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Jesus IS coming again. That is the great hope of believers. Apparently, in Jesus’ teaching, hope was a strategy. We are to have hope and we are to be READY for that hope. We don’t know the hour of the Son of God’s return, but we do know that He will return and our preparation and expectation for that moment ought to be high on our priority list. It is easy to become distracted on this earth and focus on a lot of good things but not the best things. When we settle for what titillates us on this earth we miss out on the great glory and hope of what is awaiting us. There are meaningful elements of this earth. But, our eyes, ears and watchfulness and attention ought to be to the skies from where He will come. In the book of the Revelation we are told multiple times of Jesus’ coming. When the Bible repeats a thing, it is a BIG thing:
Revelation 1:7-8 (ESV)
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Rev 3:11
[Indeed] I am coming soon.
Rev 16:15
Indeed, I am coming like a thief.
Rev 22:7
Indeed, I am coming soon.
Rev 22:12
Indeed, I am coming soon
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