Hebrews 10:28
Jesus is coming to
earth a second time to those who are looking for Him and eagerly awaiting
Him. That was the description of the
folks who received Him the first time.
Those who aren’t looking and waiting will probably miss Him, just like
most folks did the first time; those who did not understand or weren’t even
concerned about His coming. How sad,
with all the prep time allowed and all the encouragement to know who He is and
what He has done. Those who miss Him
have no excuse. That makes me sad
because I know what they are missing.
But God in His faithfulness and steadfastness has tried over and over
again to love all He created; but He will never force Himself. His love will never fail, but time is getting
short.
I am looking for
Christ’s return. I am eagerly looking
forward to seeing Him face to face and being taken to the room He has been
preparing for me in His Father’s house.
But I have to wonder once in awhile if my life reflects that looking and
eager anticipation. It is easy for me to
get distracted with other things like the affairs of the world. I also find myself getting entangled in the
affairs of people around me, especially in the people who are apart of the
church and claim to know God, people who are to be reflecting God and His
character in their lives, inviting others to know and love God. Having spent a lot of years working in the
church, I fear that we haven’t done a very good job. This is a pattern that has
been followed since the beginning of time.
We miss the mark so we look around for fig leaves. We should really know better by now.
The Bible is a
history of God’s people failing in the Covenant He made with them and then
trying to figure out how to fix things.
To this day we are still failing the one thing we are to do…obey
God. We are continually back in the
garden listening to Satan asking, “Did God say?” We are still back in the garden chewing on
the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil deciding for ourselves
what is good and what is not. We still
choose to ignore God’s voice and listen to ourselves, to others, to our
culture, or to the world’s new and improved enlightened movement. By now one would think that we would be beyond
that.
Before Jesus came
they may have had an excuse. But now, we
live under the new Covenant that Jesus initiated. Through Him we have direct access to God. God has put His laws in our hearts and
written them on our minds. Deep inside
we have His Spirit convicting and convincing us of the difference between right
and wrong, good and evil. Our problem is
obeying God. We’d much rather do what we
want to do and what works best for us.
So we keep on committing the two evils we always have. We abandon God, the source of living waters
and dig our own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
I love God’s
creation; I love my life in Him; I love people.
I have spent much of my life’s time and energy on trying to fix thins
and people who were broken, beginning with myself. But what I realize more and more is that only
God can fix what is truly broken and is the root for all the other
brokenness; a vital and whole relationship
with Him. Once that central thing is
accomplished all the other “stuff” will fall into place, if we humans get out
of the way as leaders and take on our roles as servants. God did His part through Jesus. Now it’s time to do our part by believing and
receiving all that was finished on the cross.
Once we know our role it will free up time to look and eagerly wait the
return of the One who made that relationship with God possible. Maranatha!
Come Lord Jesus, Come!
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