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The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. -- Psalm 19:1 God made you and me to know him. This is one of the most extraordinary things about the Scriptures. God is constantly and eternally revealing himself to us. He hungers for us to know him, love him, follow him, and serve him all the days of our lives. The Scripture says no man seeks after God, but that God seeks us out and reveals himself to us. For instance, every human being on earth can look up into a starry night sky and see the testimony of his glory. This is a wonderful thing, but by itself this revelation is incomplete. So God has given us another revelation… the revelation of conscience. God has placed within us a sense of accountability and a need to know right from wrong. We have an innate desire to know something bigger and better beyond ourselves and beyond this world. Maybe your conscience is asking, “What will happen to me after this life? Am I made for something more?”  When you ask these kind of questions this is your conscience… your innermost “you” yearning and aching to know the God of creation and the one who made you in your mother’s womb. You are made for more! You’re made to know the God who made the heavens and the earth!   GOD IS CONSTANTLY AND ETERNALLY REVEALING HIMSELF TO US.

Looking for the Lord’s Return

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”
2 Timothy 4:6–8

About two thousand years have passed since Jesus made a promise to His disciples the night before His crucifixion: “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:3). Despite the passage of time, that promise is just as certain and secure as it was when it was first spoken. Jesus is going to return, and He will do so without notice or warning at a time which is unknown.
Our duty is to look for His return and to live in such a way that we are prepared to meet Him with joy rather than shame. The old Scottish preacher Alexander MacLaren said, “The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and Heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave, but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.”
The only question is not whether the Lord will return, but how we will meet Him when He does. We are not meant to know when that moment will be, in part, because it serves as motivation for us to live each day to the fullest to accomplish as much as possible for God’s kingdom. Rather than saving up all our work, like a student cramming at the last minute for a test, we are to live every day expecting His return.
 

Today’s Growth Principle: 

Since Jesus could return today, use every moment you have to prepare for His return.