PT-2 "Readiness" (Matt. 24:43-44"

 

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 AM