“Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming….”
Christians around the world wonder when the Lord will come. Every time there is a crisis, it heightens our desire for the Lord to intervene, for Christ to take His church out, and for all of our problems to be solved. The only thing that the Bible tells us to do in this intervening time between the first and second comings of Christ is to watch. Predictions have always fallen through. If Jesus Christ Himself wouldn’t set a date, I am certainly not qualified to do so. What I thought about today was what Christ means when He tells us to watch. I thought about it and made an acrostic of the word “watch” that I think will explain what we are to do while we watch. Worship We are not to sit and twiddle our thumbs, so to speak, until Jesus comes. He wants us to spend time worshiping Him. This means that we are to praise and honor Him daily, and to join together in public worship. Our personal worship should include personal time spent in the Bible, reading and studying His word. We should praise Him on a daily basis. Worshiping makes us conscious of His presence in our lives and puts us in connection with Him. Ask A major part of our worship will be time spent in prayer. Jesus promised that if we would ask He would respond with answers to our prayers. James wrote: “You have not because you ask not…” Of course, it is not just a matter of asking, for we must ask in faith and in the process pray that God’s will be done as we pray. Throughout the Bible, we are reminded to ask God for the blessings that we want in our lives. While we watch, we are to stay in communication with God, for it is through prayer that we make daily connection with Him. We need to remember that we can pray anytime day or night. The door to prayer is never closed. Tell Worship and prayer are basically personal, i.e., they are things that we do to enhance our personal relationship with Him, and in the matter of public worship with our fellow Christians. But we are to reach outside of ourselves while we watch and tell others about Jesus. We call it evangelism or witnessing. The plan that Jesus left with His disciples was that they would be empowered by the Holy Spirit to be His witnesses in all parts of the world. This plan has not been changed. We are to tell the world what Jesus did for them on the cross, and what He will do for them in their lives if they will receive Him. We cannot depend on others to tell, we must decide that we are going to tell the world about Jesus. Choose As we watch we will be hit with a lot of choices. We need to pay attention to Joshua and “Choose you this day who you will serve.” Satan will be tempting us to choose to waste our time in things that do not make a difference in the kingdom of God. The choices that we make while we watch will determine the quality of the lives that we live. Let’s make our choices make a difference in the kingdom of God. Help Jesus spent a lot of His time on earth helping people. He was never too busy to take the time to help people. Even when He would try to get away for private time, He would take the time to minister to and help people. While we are waiting for Jesus to come, we should be involved in what we call “helping ministries." This means that Jesus wants us to be involved in the lives of other people, even if it is inconvenient to ourselves. I’m sure that this acrostic falls short of all that we should do while we wait, but I think that these are the most important things that we need to do while we watch. Bro. Joe
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