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Jesus’ Return

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Matthew 24

Jesus is coming again. That’s a fact. When He does, life on Earth will end, the universe will crumble. There won’t be any need of stars or moons or suns. But until He comes, life will be hard.

People will be treated unfairly. Sin will be rampant. There will be natural disasters and wars. There will be liars who will turn hearts away from the Truth.

Sound familiar? Those things describe life since the garden. I think God would have us less interested in the signs and more interested in the condition of our hearts. If we’re looking at the signs, our focus is drawn away from the sin that so easily entangles us.

I think God would have us busy working to enlarge the kingdom instead of wasting time trying to put together a puzzle of which He alone holds the pieces, and that He will complete according to His own timing.

God hasn’t even told Jesus when the end will come. Let me suggest we stop looking for signs. They are out there. They’ve always been out there. The end is near. And that’s really all we need to know.

So let’s get busy actually doing what Jesus told us to do, go and make disciples. We don’t have forever, you know.

June 26

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Amos 2-6

God is angry with the Jewish people. Amos reminds them the lengths to which God has gone to get their attention in order to bring them back to himself. But they still disobey. They still cling to evil and despise him who tells the truth.

God is telling Israel about the destruction that is coming as a consequence for their disobedience. I know there are different interpretations of “the day of the Lord” and what that means to us in 2013. I, myself, have strong opinions. But if Amos is talking about the rapture in 5:16-20 we need to take note.

I cringe when I hear someone say, “Bring back the King”, or say that this world is just too corrupt they wish God would just come back and end it all. These people may believe that lost souls will continue to be saved once the church is removed but I’m not so sure about that.

Amos says – woe to you who long for the day of the Lord. It’s going to be so much worse than you can imagine.

I would suggest that as Christians our prayer needs to be, tarry Lord. I still haven’t reached my neighbor, my brother, my co-worker for you. There is still so much to do before you come back, dear Jesus.

Instead of throwing our hands up in defeat, maybe we should get off our couches and get out there where people need to know the Lord. There are people who will spend eternity in hell if we don’t.