My little addition to Our Daily Bread (8/23/11):
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4 NIV)
I know enough of the book to know there is no point in trying to name “the date” that the Lord will return, but it’s hard for me to imagine it not being soon. When I look around me and read Scripture’s descriptions of how things will be “in the last days,” I have to say “Anytime now, Lord.” Some I think have given up on His return thinking it’s been almost two millennia and He must have forgotten about us, but it makes me marvel at His patience. He truly desires that all men come to know Him and some have not yet heard. He’s waited long enough for me to come around and I will be eternally grateful, but my heart is still being changed to share His burden for all men. But I just marvel at His patience.
It took Him just a week to make the moon and the stars,
the sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars.
How loving an patient He must be,
‘cause He’s still workin’ on me.
Andy Jentes
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