No More Delay
Reading: Revelation 10
My Verse: "Then the [mighty] angel whom I had seen stationed on sea and land raised his right hand to heaven. And swore in the name of Him Who lives forever and ever, Who created the heavens and all they contain, and the earth and all that it contains, and the sea and all that it contains. [He swore] that no more time should intervene and there should be no more waiting or delay" (10:5,6).
Wow, these passages are so amazing! The imagery is so vivid and fantastical! It is exciting and yet, and yet, there is a scary frightening side to all this, for You, LORD God do have a time schedule - not as we fully understand but there is coming a time when as the angel said there will be "no more delay."
LORD God, I am so amazed at how Your Word consistently and constantly points to this, Your return.
Each passage further delineates how this is to come about. There can be no excuse, indeed. You provide us with ample warning that there is coming a time when it will be too late to repent, to turn to You for the salvation we all need.
Ephesians 1:7-10 says this. "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the remission of our offenses, in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor. Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding. Making known to us the mystery of His will. In accordance with His good pleasure which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him. He planned for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, things in heaven and things on the earth." Here were are told that, yes, there is coming an end, but it is in Your time, not ours. There will be a "maturity of the times and the climax of the ages."
"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?" (Psalms 8:3,4) You love us so much. I think of when You, Lord Jesus wept for Lazarus and over Jerusalem. Each of us are before You. You long for each of us to turn our face to You and let You love us as You long to do. You do not want to exert Your holy wrath upon us on that day of Your return. You want it to be a most joyous day for as many as have repented and turned to You.
So many wonderful passages speak to Your return:
"For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end - it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay" (Habakkuk 2:3).
"For in just a very little while, 'He who is coming will come and will not delay.'" (Hebrews 10:37)
So we can only look up and wait with great expectancy as David in the Psalms admonishes.
"Wait for the LORD, be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD" (Psalms 27:14).
Yes, there is coming a day, a day when there will be no more delay.
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
Reading: Revelation 10
My Verse: "Then the [mighty] angel whom I had seen stationed on sea and land raised his right hand to heaven. And swore in the name of Him Who lives forever and ever, Who created the heavens and all they contain, and the earth and all that it contains, and the sea and all that it contains. [He swore] that no more time should intervene and there should be no more waiting or delay" (10:5,6).
Wow, these passages are so amazing! The imagery is so vivid and fantastical! It is exciting and yet, and yet, there is a scary frightening side to all this, for You, LORD God do have a time schedule - not as we fully understand but there is coming a time when as the angel said there will be "no more delay."
LORD God, I am so amazed at how Your Word consistently and constantly points to this, Your return.
Each passage further delineates how this is to come about. There can be no excuse, indeed. You provide us with ample warning that there is coming a time when it will be too late to repent, to turn to You for the salvation we all need.
Ephesians 1:7-10 says this. "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the remission of our offenses, in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor. Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding. Making known to us the mystery of His will. In accordance with His good pleasure which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him. He planned for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, things in heaven and things on the earth." Here were are told that, yes, there is coming an end, but it is in Your time, not ours. There will be a "maturity of the times and the climax of the ages."
"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?" (Psalms 8:3,4) You love us so much. I think of when You, Lord Jesus wept for Lazarus and over Jerusalem. Each of us are before You. You long for each of us to turn our face to You and let You love us as You long to do. You do not want to exert Your holy wrath upon us on that day of Your return. You want it to be a most joyous day for as many as have repented and turned to You.
So many wonderful passages speak to Your return:
"For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end - it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay" (Habakkuk 2:3).
"For in just a very little while, 'He who is coming will come and will not delay.'" (Hebrews 10:37)
So we can only look up and wait with great expectancy as David in the Psalms admonishes.
"Wait for the LORD, be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD" (Psalms 27:14).
Yes, there is coming a day, a day when there will be no more delay.
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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