A watchful eye

I believe that one of the most difficult things to try and wrap our minds around is...when is Christ going to return?

All thoughts and opinions that circulate around this idea are all over the place. You might hear it in the news...you might hear it from a friend...you might read something in a text book about our world wasting away, etc.

The goal I have for you by the time you finish reading this post is to have a better understanding of when that day will actually come.

"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard! You do not know when that time will come. It's like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch."

"Therefore, keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back - whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. He he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone: 'Watch!'" (Mark 13:32-37)

You can see what Jesus is saying in the scripture...nobody knows when that day will happen. You would think the angels might know, or the Son, but they don't! I find that to be so crazy awesome and that just shows the power of the Father.

Whenever I read this passage it's easy to get a little scared sometimes. Scared to thinking that what if it happened in 10 minutes?

The most important part from that scripture is the part about warning us not to fall asleep. Jesus is not saying that we need to literally stay awake all of the time and never sleep...that'd be silly. What Jesus is implying is that we can never let ourselves spiritually fall asleep/drift away.

No matter how long we have to wait, if we let ourselves drift away and fall asleep we won't get to experience the kingdom of heaven. We are to always be ready. This requires having a significant amount of faith. It might not happen during our lives but it might to our kids, or our kid's kids. Imagine the example that you can set for your family someday about having faith that the Father will come someday. If we drift away, we take the opportunity for eternal life away from so many people...

I always hear the question: 'If Christ came back now are you 100% confident you would go to heaven?'

I hope you answer 'yes' so quickly without a blink of hesitation!

What throws me off sometimes is that the scripture about this is clearly right there and people still have their own opinions about when that day will actually happen.

You know what Jesus says?

So be on guard; I have told you everything ahead of time. (Mark 13:23)

He has told us everything. Nobody knows besides the Father. Stop believing all the crazy societal opinions out there and remember that Jesus has told us everything ahead of time...Keep a watchful all eye, you never know when that day will come...