Will It Be Today?
"Looking for and hastening
the coming of the day of
God."
2 Peter 3: 12
This thought has occupied minds of
some of history’s greatest Christians:
the soon return of Christ.
A little book called the Didache is among
the earliest documents in Church
history.
It's there we read, “Let not your lamps be
quenched, nor your loins unloosed; but be
ready, for you know not the hour in which
our Lord will come.”
Cyril wrote in the fourth century: “But let us wait
and look for the Lord’s coming upon clouds from
heaven. Then shall angelic trumpets sound.” In
the sixteenth century is this line by John Calvin:
“We must hunger after Christ until the dawning of
that great day when our Lord will fully manifest
the glory of His kingdom.”
In the eighteenth century, John Wesley said:
“The Spirit in the heart of the true believer says
with earnest desire, ‘Come, Lord Jesus.’” And
in twentieth century, evangelist Billy Graham
said: “Many times when I go to bed at night I
think to myself that before I awaken Christ
may come.”
Are you expecting Christ to come today?
Perhaps this hour? “Be ready,” Jesus said,
“for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you
do not expect” (Matthew 24:44). Even so,
come, Lord Jesus!
"We are not just looking for
something to happen, we are
looking for Someone to come!"
Vance Havner