This Made Every Member Of Our Prayer Group Stop and Think – Sunday Thought For The Day

It is an absolute fact that Christ is going to return to gather Christians, both those who have died first and then the living.  It is called the rapture.  It is also a fact that no one, but God knows the exact moment that will occur.  A true Christian understands and believes this fact.  But, if you are a true born-again Christian, how often have you thought about what He will find you doing when the rapture takes place, presuming we are still alive?  How often have you thought about same?

I can tell you that I have thought about it no few times.  But, this past week, a small group of believers and myself had this thought driven home.  Let me explain.

Every Tuesday evening The Daily Rant (TDR) prayer group meets at the home of my wife and I.  This particular Tuesday evening as we were discussing the requests and prayer needs we lift in intercessory prayer, plus the new prayer requests and needs of people we gather to pray for, prior to beginning prayer, there was a knock on our door.  I pause to tell you that this was the first time in the 5-years we have been meeting that we’ve been interrupted.

It was an utility service man going through the neighborhood on technical business.  I explained that we were beginning our prayer meeting.  He apologized for interrupting and offered to return another day; I declined and said let’s do it now, but quickly.  At that moment, I asked one member who was with us on speaker phone to hold on for a moment.  The service man apologized again, and expressed amazement that we a person was participating by phone.

After the gentleman left we as a group reflected upon the second coming of Christ.  We hadn’t been expecting to be interrupted.  It had never happened before, and we weren’t remotely thinking about the possibility of same that evening.  His surprise at our prayer gathering, and his even greater expression of surprise that someone was participating on speaker phone was discussed.  He had told us another person in the neighborhood had been extremely rude and threatening to him.

We discussed the parallels of what if, instead of the service man, the Lord had returned?  What if He had found our group praying and making intercession for others?  Or what if the Lord returned and found us doing something that would bring us shame?

Take a moment and think about it.  As a true Christian, how do you want the Lord to find you when He comes again?  Before answering that question, we need make sure we have truthfully accepted Christ.

 

READ:

Matthew 24:36-51 (KJV)

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.