Only those watching

 

~ Been reviewing scripture about the Rapture of the Church.. the BLESSED HOPE as God calls it.. at a time when so many are feeling hopeless, even in the church.. it would seem a no brainer to turn our hearts to the blessed hope for encouragement..

not as a form of escapism.. but as assurance and a reminder that none of what is happening in our lives and around us is taking God by surprise.. he has a distinct plan that will culminate in an end to all evil.. just knowing that he is in control and can be trusted brings a great peace and restores our hope.

the darkness is not forever, the hurt is not forever, the evil that seems to always win on the earth is not forever.. God knows our limits, that we are strong enough to bear so much, we are his kids after all... he trusts us to do our part to minister to the family of God, our family.. to increase it, to minister to it, to encourage it during this time of war.

a day is coming when he will return for us.. that day is so close.. we can feel how close the end times are and the emergence of the antichrist and all that is evil in the world.. but we have forgotten that before the antichrist emerges on the scene, Christ is coming for us. He will appear in the sky... in 1/1000th of a second to catch away every believer watching for him.. we will be with him in the heavens and gone from the earth..

not all Christians will go.. according to the word of God.. only those who are watching for that Blessed Hope.. few speak of the Rapture of the church anymore.. which concerns me that few will be watching for his return.. is it any wonder that the church has become so corrupt and full of sin.. we fail to keep ourselves in a state of readiness.. we fail to be watchful.. to let the little things go, in light of the fact that it will all be left behind anyway..

hopelessness has permeated the Church because it no longer believes in the Blessed Hope that is coming.. and soon.

 

 

 ~ "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." (2 Chron 7)

God is speaking about his ppl, believers, Christians.. we need to make this passage personal. The sin and evil in the land isn't a matter of the world and what other ppl are doing.. it's a matter of what's in our heart, what sin are we willfully committing or refusing to clean up in our heart and our lives.. it is OUR wicked ways, sin, that God is addressing.. the church, Christians, you, me..

Only when we stop focusing on the sin of others and begin to clean our own heart and our own house, will God bring healing and wholeness to everything within us and to our land and to our family and to all that he has promised. That healing is not always perfection in the earth.. but it is perfect peace..

and peace with God is healing and wholeness in it's most perfect sense.

 

 ~ It doesn't mean that we ignore the sin of others.. it means that it is not our focus.. we clean up.. and then God makes us able to bring healing and cleansing to all that he has given us influence and authority over. It puts the will of God for us and for every life ours touches as the focus, the center.. but it begins with us making our own hearts ready to encounter him face to face... who wouldn't sincerely and genuinely clean up for such a meeting with the Almighty God in his holiness, and power, and piercing love?


~ When is the last time that you looked up into a beautiful sky..

not to admire the beauty of nature..

but to search the clouds for the Blessed Hope of his return.
...
If you're not watching, you're not going.
Sounds harsh, but truth is pretty black and white and often comes acorss as such. You don't have to go.. you get to go.. if you believe and you want to go.

 Ready yourself, and Watch for him <3

 ~  "So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch." Jesus.

(Mark 13)


~ ".. what I say unto you, I say unto all. Watch." Jesus.

That's you and me.. we are part of the all.. we are commanded to watch for his return..