” Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” Mark 13:33
God’s timing is perfect timing. If God asks us to do something now, then there is no better time.
Jesus asked Peter, James and John, to watch and pray with Him.
” Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Matthew 26:41
They fell asleep and never got another chance to pray with Jesus, and do something like that for Him.
The Bible teaches us that we do not have all the time in the world.
”Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” James 4:13-17
If we know to do something good, and don’t do it, it is a sin. We may never get another chance to do something like that for the Lord.
Destruction can come in one night.
”And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.” Exodus 12:29
”But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?” Luke 12:20
Jesus warns us in His Word, ”Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:” Ephesians 4:25
We may never get another day to see someone again, to tell them we love them, or to tell someone about Jesus.
Judgment may come even within an hour!
” Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.” Revelation 18:10
We may never have another time!
”And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:” Revelation 10:5-7
“(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)” II Corinthians 6:2
Jesus even said not to take thought for tomorrow.
”Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Matthew 6:34
“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always…” Luke 21:34-36
Much can happen in one day.
”And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.” Luke 19:9
The Lord if He chooses can make a day last a long time . He has done it in the past for those that fear and serve Him. (Joshua 10:13) And the Proverbs says that keeping His commandments , gives one not only long life, but also “length of days”. (Proverbs 3: 1-2; 16)
”But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” II Peter 3:8
Jesus doesn’t like waste…
“When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.” John 6:12
If you give your time to Jesus, He can do a lot with it. Jesus used five barley loaves and two small fishes that were given to Him to feed over 5,000 men. He can use just one day, to get much done. Even if you’ve wasted a lot of time, He can use what you have left.
But, what you have: use it.
He tells us that He is coming quickly!
“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” Revelation 22:12
Don’t put it off until later. Serve Jesus now!
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