Daily devotion – A day just like any other day!
The day the Rapture occurs will be a day just like any other. People will be heading off to work should it occur during the working week. If it’s on the weekend, coffee shops will be busy. If it’s morning, joggers will be doing their routine runs and people walking their dogs.
What if it happens during the evening hours? Somewhere around the world this will be so — people waking up not knowing millions have disappeared. News headlines will be dominated by this strange event. The word “rapture” will surely be mentioned by someone, yet somehow dismissed by the majority.
But in many houses, workplaces and schools, those left behind will be struck cold by knowing what indeed has happened — why a husband or wife is no longer there, parents vanished, sons and daughters suddenly absent.
That day and hour is growing closer with each passing day. Yet people continue to live their lives ignorant of God’s Word and the events of the Last Days.
What if it is a Sunday? How many churches will remain closed? Will some arrive only to be greeted by a sparse car park, locked doors and an eerie silence?
When God shut the door of the ark with only Noah, Mrs Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth and their wives safely inside, and it began to rain and rain and rain — how long did it take for those outside the ark to finally realise the truth of what Noah had been warning them about for 120 years?
That day is approaching as surely as Christ rose from the dead. Jesus Himself taught His disciples about it on the night of His betrayal:
John 14:1–4
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 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. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.”
Today is another new day. Wars continue in our world, evil abounds, and people go about their business thinking it’s just another ordinary day.
Yet for the believer, we are called to live with expectancy, readiness and hope.
Luke 21:28
“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
Are you living in expectancy?
Maranatha — even so, come Lord Jesus.