SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/8/2024 7:04 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “Readiness”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt. 24:43-44
Message of the verses: “43 "But be sure of this, that if the head of the house
had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on
the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 44 “For this
reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you
do not think He will.”
I want to say at the beginning of
this SD that it will be very short due to the fact that my wife and I are
heading home from a vacation that we have spent in Maui for almost a month, and
that is why the SD’s are coming out a little later than when we were at home in
Ohio.
We have talked about these verses
and stated that Jesus was not the thief that He is talking about in this
section, although one of Michael Card’s songs says that Jesus is the One who
steals our hearts away when He saves us.
MacArthur writes “In one sense,
however, Jesus will come in the role as well as with the unexpectedness of a
thief. As far as the ungodly are
concerned, He will come and take away everything they have, all the things they
have cherished and trusted in instead of Him.”
One more paragraph from MacArthur’s
commentary and then I will try and do a longer one tomorrow morning at the
hotel we will be staying at. “As already
noted, it seems impossible that most people in that day will not be expecting
Jesus’ coming. In light of the absolute
destructiveness and horror of the signs of the end time they will witness, how
could they not turn to God for help and mercy?
How could they possibly attribute those things simply to natural
causes? Yet most of them will be so
overwhelmingly blinded by sin and self-will that no amount of evidence will
cause them to seek God. Instead, hostility
toward God will reach a fever pitch never known before on earth, not even
during the times of Noah. For this reason,
you be ready too, Jesus said, just as Noah and his family were ready.”
Great advice for all who are alive
today, and that is accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord so that
you will be ready when He returns at the Rapture when He will take His bride
back to heaven with Him, before the Tribulation period begins.
2/8/2024 7:22
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