“Take a lesson from the fig tree. From the moment you notice its buds form, the merest hint of green, you know summer’s just around the corner. So it is with you: When you see all these things, you’ll know he’s at the door. Don’t take this lightly. I’m not just saying this for some future generation, but for all of you. This age continues until all these things take place. Sky and earth will wear out; my words won’t wear out. But the exact day and hour? No one knows that, not even heaven’s angels, not even the Son. Only the Father knows.” (Matthew 24:32-36 The Message Bible)
It was somewhere about 2:00 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. Two people interact briefly in this early hour of the day, a father, and his son. The son after looking for a snack in the refrigerator asked the father, “Are we still doing our planned activity tomorrow?” The father said with a smile, “You mean today, don’t you?” The son’s perspective of time was based on the fact that it was still pitch dark outside and he had not gone to bed for the night; not yet. The father’s perspective of time was based on knowingly rising early after four hours of sleep from 9:30 p.m. until 1:30 a.m. As you can see, when it comes to your perspective of actual time, it can be different.
Now when it comes to our perspective of time from a spiritual perspective, we may not know the exact time of the Second Advent, the time when Christ returns again, that time is the same for everybody. There will be no varying perspectives. Thus the advice to all is to be ready when He comes. And, just FYI, the specific advice to the those who are delaying coming to Christ by faith, you make sure to tell them that they should not feel secure about their “tomorrow ,“ delaying their coming by faith to Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Delays can lead to a disastrous, calamitous end. Look up some examples in the Bible, as some personal study, to see where for some, tomorrow never came. Oh, it will happen again, and I tell you the truth, those not in Christ will receive what they deserve.
We’ve got some sharing to do on this topic, the perspective of time! After all, we are enlistees, part of the evangelistic team for the Lord. Jesus Himself recruited us when He called us, and listen, when we responded to His call we were expected to also react with expediency to His charge. “Ye shall be my witnesses” applies to all of us, including you! Go ye therefore and make disciples applies to all of us, including you! Have a great Monday! Be blessed!
“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.” (I Thessalonians 4:16-17 NIV)
Still committed to the climb,
Mark L. King