When you see
color spilled across the sky like that, you know the sun rise is near, right?
Just as dark, heavy clouds forecast rain. In the same way, Jesus tells us to
watch for signs of His return. Not as alarmists, or that we have the day and
hour pegged, because that cannot happen. But just to be watchful.
Luke
12:35-48 speaks on such watchfulness. I want to share some of this passage and
encourage you to read the rest on your own. Starting in verse 35, Jesus says,
“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. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready,
even if he comes in the 2nd or 3rd watch of the night.
But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief
was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be
ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
Wow! I don’t
exactly know what to do with those words. I know what it means to be prepared.
I know how to pack a camping trailer for a week’s vacation. Is that what He’s
talking about? Or is it more like the first year Adam left for 10 days to go
to Africa? I couldn’t sleep the night before, excitedly awaiting his arrival the next
day. I cleaned the house, had food to cook, I was ready! To me, verse 35 conveys a message of anticipation and expectation of the
Master’s return, that goes beyond what my everyday expresses.
How am I to
be ready for Christ’s return? Are you ready for Him to return? The word says it
will be good for that person who watching, when He returns. Are you watching?
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