THE LORD IS COMING

No one knows when the Lord is coming. We know that he came once and is still here with us. We ask often for him to come to us in prayer, healing and deliverance. We also read that he plans to come again. He said that he does not know ‘when’ that will be but only the Father knows.

We read this in the gospels, “Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.  But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

Frederick Buechner writes, “In one of the more outlandish of his outlandish images, he (Jesus) says he will come like a thief in the night. We must be ready at all times therefore. We can never be sure when he will break into the world as into a house, when he will break into our lives.”

We best be ready for his breaking into our lives and world like a thief in the night. We don’t know what part of the night. We must stay awake so we may let him in and he doesn’t have to break in.

“You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” Jesus