WRITTEN BY: Joe Stowell (Our Daily Bread; 5/20/12)
Through the years, quite a few people have predicted the return of Jesus at a specific time. Just last year an American radio preacher stirred up the interest of the mainstream media with his prediction that Jesus would return on May 21, 2011.
Anyone who knows Scripture well knew that this advance warning wasn’t accurate, because Jesus Himself said His return would be “at an hour you do not expect” (Luke 12:40). But I do have to admit that this prediction captured my attention. Often I get so caught up in the busyness of life that I live as though Jesus’ return is some distant reality. I forget that Jesus could come back at any time. The prediction, wrong as it was, reminded me about the importance of being prepared for my Savior’s return, and it renewed my excitement that it could be any day—even today.
Sometimes when we think of being ready for Jesus’ return, we think about what we shouldn’t be doing. But being prepared is really about purifying ourselves and becoming more and more like Him so we are pleasing to Him when He comes back for us (1 John 3:2-3). Jesus taught that being ready for His return requires living according to our Master’s will now (Luke 12:47). Will we be prepared when it’s time for the real thing?
Keep me praying, keep me trusting
Every step along life’s way!
Keep me waiting, keep me watching,
For He may return today! —Thiesen
Look for Christ’s return and you’ll live for Christ’s glory.
READ: Luke 12:35-40
35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
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@ Bill Sr.
This prayer was beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.
God bless,
Betrayed
A Prayer for Divine Love within the Body of Christ on earth
Dear Father in Heaven,
We know it is true that your love of those for whom you gave your Son as a sacrifice for their salvation and redemption and in general for the world is never ending. It is a divine love that we poor mortals can only begin to imagine. We long for the joy of being one with you in your presence that we too can love as we are loved. We long for the beatific vision which sees clearly through the prism of your Son’s Passion and sheds the eternal light of your love upon your people and all mankind, a vision without our petty self interests but in love with loving your Creation.
At this time your Church is in great need of shepherds who seek a measure of your divine love for their flocks. We pray that you will grant to those brave and courageous bishops and pastors humbly seeking your assistance in guiding their sheep safely home to you a portion of this nature of yours which only you through the Holy Spirit have the power to give. You have told us the gates of hell will not prevail against your church and we trust in your word. As America and the world are now being besieged by the forces of evil like never before, we implore you to see that our spiritual leaders are able to act and make decision with the a kind of heavenly love as yours which comes from legitimate feelings and emotions but includes the wisdom and knowledge found only in your eternal truth.
Grant them dear Father a renewed and enlightened determination to see that your Heavenly Will, fortified with your divine love, is with reverence sincerely injected into every debated issue which may affect the lives of our people and their cherished faith in Holy Mother Church.
A just chastisement is not without merit for us at this time for many have in folly turned away from you. Yet through and in the name of Christ our Lord and Savior we call upon your Divine Mercy to give us this measure of your love that as many of us as your abundant grace desires can be lead by truth to find a path back into your arms that we may in turn praise now and for all eternity your…… Divine Love.
bill sr: thk you sir…