Unless you’ve been living under rock you probably heard that the world was supposed to come to an end on September 23.
I am writing this on September 25. Two days after the world was supposed to end. Needless to say, the world didn’t end two days ago, and it won’t end the next time some person makes an audacious claim that the world will end on such and such a date. There is a word for people like that, wrong.
The fact is the world will come to an end. We just don’t know when. But it will come to an end. Again, for the sake of clarity, we don’t know when the world will end. Only that it will end.
Those of us who call ourselves Wesleyans, believe that the world will end, and that Jesus is coming back (are the two mutually exclusive? You tell me…)
Again, Jesus is coming back, but we don’t know when. All we know is that Jesus is coming back. But we don’t know when.
The Bible is pretty clear on this issue. Well, sort of. It tells us that Jesus is coming back, we just don’t know when. You can read more here. Please, read it. It’s a great chapter.
Wesleyans believe “in the imminent return of Jesus Christ.” What does that mean? Let me try to illustrate it this way.
I am currently awaiting my third liver transplant. yes, you read that right. 3rd.
What that means is I am on an “active transplant list”
Meaning that I could get a phone call at any moment telling me that i will have to leave to go to the Hospital and receive my 4th liver. I don’t know when this call will come, I only know that the call is coming.
So, I am living ready. I am trying to do what I can with no regrets, because I know there will come a day when I won’t be able to do anything but sit (lay) in the hospital and recover. But that’s another blog entry.
I want to overemphasize again that I could get a phone call at any time telling me that my liver is in, I just don’t know when.
Its the same thing with the Second Coming of Jesus. We know that He is coming back, we just don’t know when.
What must we do? Get ready. Be ready. Live ready. Surrender your life to Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Read the Word as recorded in 2 Peter: “But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. 9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.
11 Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live, 12 looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames. 13 But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.
14 And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight.
15 And remember, our Lord’s patience gives people time to be saved.
One of the reasons the world didn’t come to an end this past weekend; other than the dude who told us it was going to end was wrong, is because God is wanting more and more people to come into His family. He wants you, yes you, to come into His Family, so that when He does come back, or when the world does come to an end, you will be ready.
While we wait for the Son to return—He is coming again, we just don’t know when— we’re to live Holy and Godly lives, so we will be ready when He comes back for us.
Now, about that liver….
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