“Light from on high”
– Luk 1:78 (AMP)
It’s Time, indeed
The Lord has been speaking to us lately quite a bit about TIME. If you remember, a little while back Angus Buchan organised a mass prayer meeting and called it “It’s TIME!” Have you noticed the lyrics of one of the songs we sang on Sunday: “It’s TIME for the Reign of God…”? And then the presentation delivered by Jews for Jesus on the same Sunday was also all about TIME: “The 4 Seasons of life”.
Is God saying something? The disciples asked Jesus towards the end of His ministry, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” (Mat 24:3) Why is it important to correctly understand the TIMES? Jesus said: “But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore, you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” (Mat 24:43-44)
It is not just about us preparing ourselves, but it is also about God’s heart for the lost. It is also about God’s eternal plan. Listen to His beautiful promise through Isaiah: “Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient TIMES things that are not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure, …Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it.” (Isa 46:10 & 11)
Take courage, God WILL bring to pass ALL that He had promised over your life! At the right TIME it will happen. But will we also heed the opportune times in our lives and carefully respond TIMEOUSLY? Here is a final word from Rom 13:11 “…knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.”
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