In this devotion, I want to tell you everything that I know about when Christ will return. Are you ready? Here it is: we don’t know. That’s it! Isn’t that refreshing! In fact, in today’s passage, the first 31 verses aren’t about his return. Instead they are about the destruction of the Jewish temple that happened about 40 years after Jesus’ life on earth. Only verses 32-37 are about his return.
I can’t tell you when Jesus is returning; neither can anyone else. I can only tell you that he is returning. So his commandment to us in this regard is not to figure it out, but rather to be ready (he says, ‘keep watch’). We don’t ready ourselves by having our bags packed and waiting by the door. Rather, we ready ourselves for his return by living rightly in this world.
Are there some things that you’ve been putting off in your life? Maybe it is a relationship that needs to be repaired, or by putting off your life’s calling to pursue your own desires. I challenge you to live like he’s returning tomorrow, because you don’t know when he’ll come or when your end will come. Only when we live with this sense of urgency can we truly live the abundant life that he has called us to.
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