A Typical Day In Indiana

We've been enjoying a fairly typical fallish day here in Indy. I went out for a morning run (fighting the weight battle), ran some errands, and, now, as I sit here writing this, I can see the trees in the backyard swaying in the cool breeze. There isn't really much at all to distinguish this Thursday from other mid-September days around here.

Do you know that this is exactly the kind of day that it will be when the trumpet of God sounds and the Lord descends to catch away His Church? Jesus said that humanity would be eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage: In other words, life will be "business as usual".

The tragedy in this is that so many are anticipating some kind of "sign" that the Lord's return is near. But that will not be the case! That is why it is of the utmost importance that we live in a state of preparedness, anticipating the "blessed hope" that the Lord has promised.

If the enemy of our soul cannot entice us to succumb to some deep, dark act of sin then he will endeavor to distract us from our closeness to the Lord. Jesus spoke of such a group of people, in Revelation chapter 2, when He rebuked the Ephesian believers for having left their first love.

Please notice that He found no fault in their activities, but the fact of the matter was that they had ceased from serving Him from a basis of love, and were now simply keeping their religious rules!

So, on this "typical" day, from my heart, I want to encourage every precious soul to keep Jesus Christ at the very center of all of your thoughts and actions, because "in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh."

God bless