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If Christ Should Come Today, June 29
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son
of man.
Luke 21:36
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Christ bids us watch, that we may be accounted worthy to escape the things
that are coming on the earth. It is of the greatest importance that we heed this
warning. The enemy of all righteousness is on our track, seeking to lead us to
forget God.
We should be filled with joy at the thought of Christ’s soon appearing. To
those that love His appearing He will come without sin unto salvation. But if our
minds are filled with thoughts of earthly things, we cannot look forward with joy
to His appearing.
“If I knew that Christ were coming in a few years,” one says, “I should live
very differently.” But if we believe that He is coming at all, we should live just as
faithfully as if we knew that He would appear in a few years. We cannot see the
end from the beginning, but Christ has provided sufficient help for every day in
the year.
All we have to do with is this one day. Today we must be faithful to our trust.
Today we must love God with all the heart and our neighbor as ourselves. Today
we must resist the temptations of the enemy, and through the grace of Christ gain
the victory. Thus we shall watch and wait for Christ’s coming. Each day we
should live as if we knew that this would be our last day on this earth. If we knew
that Christ would come tomorrow, would we not crowd into today all the kind
words, all the unselfish deeds, that we could? We should be patient and gentle,
and intensely in earnest, doing all in our power to win souls to Christ....
I urge you to turn your thoughts from worldly things and center them on the
things of eternity. Christ has placed everlasting life within your reach, and He has
promised to give you help in every time of need.... We should never rest satisfied
with present attainments. If we put mind and heart into the work of reaching God’s
ideal for us, if we go to Christ, the mighty helper, for aid, He will give us the very
assistance that we need. He will bestow on us the very power that will enable us
to be victorious in the struggle against evil.
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