Our paragraph topic is: (Christ warns them not to be led astray) Part 7.
It was like a horror story they were hearing. Destruction upon destruction, evil events coming to pass in the near future that would tear the world apart and the end of the world would come. They wanted to know. But Christ had to prepare them before telling all that would happen. The disciples must be prepared. Their minds, their curiosity, their anxiety were raised to the point of high expectation, but it had to be brought back to reality in order that they would not be led astray by fear.
Christ was coming to the end of his journey. His time here on earth was almost finished. It was now up to the disciples to take over and continue the tasks he started. They were his followers. They were his students. They were the witnesses of all that was said and done by the master. They will be the ones who would receive the spirit of Christ to carry on the message of hope and love. But as he told them: "But the end is not yet."
More was yet to come. More was yet to be revealed. More destruction, more evil, more hardship, more sorrow, more pain, more suffering, more death. More was yet to come before the end would come and Christ would return triumphant. The disciples needed to know some of what would happen but not all. They had not received the spirit and their souls were not ready to accept what was to come.
Are we ready? Are we prepared to accept what is to come today, tomorrow, anytime. Have we made our peace with our Father, repented of our sins, asked of his forgiveness? Or is that something that we will do later at the last minute when the world comes crashing in?
I thought so myself. I was so busy chasing after the golden ring that I did not have the time to stop and repent of my sins. The things that I did were necessary to survive and thrive in this world. I did not do enough, I thought, to get ahead. I needed to do more. I needed to cheat more, lie more, play the game more, be more aggressive, steal more, do anything and everything I could to get ahead like others.
And when I crashed from my failures he picked me up and showed me that I was not a failure. He showed me that I was his precious child that he loved from the beginning. He told me that the things that I sought here on earth were nothing compared to the things that he had prepared for me in heaven. I am already rich beyond my wildest imagination. I am loved beyond any love that I can find. The peace that I might find here is nothing compared to the peace that I know through him. I have new life, now and nothing can take that from me. I am ready, today, tomorrow, forever. My soul is at rest. May your soul know peace and be at rest.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
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