Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Luke 12:35-37 "Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them."
LIVE LIKE THE LORD IS COMING AGAIN!
At times, perhaps, we get too caught up in the daily matters of this life because our heavenly life is hidden from us. Christ is not coming in the clouds at this very moment, so His coming may tend to seem unreal to us. Nor can we fully imagine just what it will be like to live forever without sin, so we do not think about it as often as we think about the things that are immediately in front of us. It is a bit ironic that the things that appear more permanent and real (the things of this world) are actually passing away, while things that seem far away (such as our everlasting life with Christ) are every bit as real and are not temporary.
The reality is that Jesus is coming again (Acts 1:11), and Jesus wants you to be ready to receive the Son of Man when He comes.
Like a master who returns to his house after the wedding banquet and finds his servants ready, so Jesus says it should be when He comes again. He wants to find us ready and watching for Him when He arrives. What a joy that day will be, for the Lord Himself will do the serving when He comes! He is coming to serve us with goodness and blessing, to give us the full measure of everything promised: the resurrection of our bodies and the life everlasting.
We live for that day, don't we? We live even now in readiness for the Son of Man to come again. We do not want to be too distracted by the cares, the business and busyness, the entertainments and pursuits that are only of this life, for we stand in eager expectation of the life to come. Jesus, by His cross, has made us ready to inherit this life, so let's look for it in faith!
