And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed."
The passage rang loud and true in my heart for it is definitely true that our Lord Jesus is much nearer than before; that the time He is going to claim His sons and daughers have become much nearer and only draws closer. Personally I fail to realize this fact. I live everyday as it comes and not realizing that the Son can return at any moment. Because we speak of the second coming in church so often, it tends to slip our minds, my very own mind especially. Because we do not see His coming to be anytime soon, we do not fear the judgement that we will recieve when we see God. Our lives go on filled with sin disregarding the fact that at ANY MOMENT Jesus could reappear.
What if Jesus reappear at the exact moment you are arguing with someone? Punching someone? Cursing under your breath? What kind of excuse would we give Jesus? The same one that we've been giving Him all our lives?
"The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law."
So love as Jesus has first loved us. Let that be the end of all our ends. (Let love be the reason we do everything)
Praise the Lord.
Amen.
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