"That Very Night,...In One Hour"

"That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain."

(Daniel 5:30)

 

The danger of complacence is unpreparedness.  Belshazzar was probably living as most people today.  If someone would have challenged him, he most likely would have agreed that life is limited for all.  But, again as most, his life style did not reflect the sobriety which that realization brings.

 

I often like to remind myself that even though most days go by with non earth-shattering experiences, that does not negate the reality of a literal "earth-shattering" Day coming.  Neither does it mean that great cataclysmic prophetic events cannot unfold, "that very night"-------------- they will. Consider, "every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God" -----"And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day....It is not for you to know the times or the dates....It will happen in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown....For in one hour your judgment has come."  

 

The question is, What are we doing to prepare?  Right now the "mature" among us are saying, "You should not be an escapist.  You can't live in the future.  You must live now; be involved; be active in serving the Lord Jesus Christ."  Of course; yet if we did not need to be reminded, "that very night," is coming, "in one hour," the "God-Breathed" Word would not say so.  It is very easy for us time-space humans to get so involved in our plans and work, we lose sight of the impending, "that very night."  Four times in Matthew's Gospel our Lord Jesus Christ refers to, "the end of the age."  This is not to be trivialized!  Obadiah 15 says, "For the day of the LORD upon all the nations is near...."

 

Yet the Followers of Jesus Christ, those who are members of the Church of Christ can rejoice, even in the midst of events which put terror in the hearts of those who reject Jesus.  For there is coming a, "that very night," when our King Jesus says to us, "Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world...."  (Pardon me)  -----------------------------------------  GLORY!

 

Father, in Jesus' Name, may I never sleep the sleep of complacency, but always be awake with the alertness of a watchman.  Amen.

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Hebrews 12:2