Time is Too Short to Wait Too Long
Get five people in a room and there will usually be five variations of thought concerning the end-times and the Lord’s coming. Some believe in a pre-tribulation rapture; others, a mid-tribulation rapture or even a post-tribulation rapture. You may be like the man who said he was a pan-millennialist. He believed it would just “pan out” in the end anyway.
By Tim Hill
I don’t mean to make light of such an important subject. That’s not my intent. I will make the point that regardless of what school of thought you adhere to, surely you have to believe that time as we currently know it is running out on this old world.
Jesus often referred to His return when talking to His disciples:
“I go to prepare a place for you … I will come again and receive you unto myself” (John 14:3).
Then He said, “For in such an hour as you think not the son of man cometh” (Matthew 24:44).
Jesus prophesied His coming when He said, “Learn the parable of the fig tree: When her branch is yet tender and puts forth leaves, you know that the summer is near: Likewise, when you see all these things come to pass, know that it is near, even at the doors” (Mark 13:28).
The apostle Paul described the Lord’s return using descriptive language when he said “He will come as a thief in the night” (I Thessalonians 5:2).
There are too many concurrent things happening. We are living in the middle of Matthew 24, which describes the last days as times of great deception, international conflicts, unusual disruptions of nature, and more.
Bottom line: Time is too short to wait too long …
Don’t wait too long to pray.
Don’t wait too long to repair relationships.
Don’t wait too long to mend fences with your family.
Don’t wait too long to deal with hidden sin in your life.
Don’t wait too long to use the words, “I love you,” on someone who means the world to you.
Don’t wait too long to witness to a neighbor.
Minutes are too precious to waste them. The moment you have right now will never come to you again.
That’s why scripture implores us to “Choose this day whom you will serve” (Joshua 24:15).
That’s the reason scripture states in Ephesians 5:16 that we are to
“Redeem the time, because the days are evil.”
An old lyric says it best …
“Only one life so soon it will pass,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.”
Make this moment count for the Lord.
Tim Hill, Director, World Missions
