Time!

No one knows when that day or time will be, not the angels in heaven, not even the Son. Only the Father knows.

Matthew 24:36 

 

 

One of my favorite television shows happens to be NCIS: New Orleans, where the Special Agent in Charge has a catch phrase of "Learn Things."  We, as humans, like to know what's going to happen, when it's going to happen, and where it's going to happen.

 

One of the questions I am asked with regularity is "Do you think the end of the world is near?"  To which my answer is almost always "It's one day closer than yesterday."  Why do we worry about such things?  Even Jesus admitted that the ONLY one who knows is God the Father!  And if He didn't share that information with Jesus or the Angels...it's not for us to know either.  In fact, Jesus said in verse 42: "So always be ready, because you don’t know the day your Lord will come."

 

You see, why get all worked up about such things?  Be ready!  Don't wait until the last minute, because we don't know when that will be.

 

My Grampa told me a story when I was much younger:  A young man, who was pretty lazy, wanted to marry the rancher's daughter.  The rancher told the young man to wait outside the barn and he would send out 10 bulls one at a time, and all the young man had to do was catch one of them by the tail, then he could marry the rancher's daughter.  So the young man sat in the shade outside the barn and waited.  First bull came out, the young man just rested.  Second bull came out, the young man rested.  This went on until the eighth bull came out, the young man decided he'd better get up and get ready.  The ninth bull came out, the young man decided to assume his "attack stance."  When the tenth bull came out, it didn't have a tail.  Moral of the story: "Don't wait, be prepared!"