Our paragraph topic is: (The sign of the last day) Part 9.
What are we looking for? What do we search for each day of our lives? Is it love? Is it happiness? is it money, a good job, wealth, success? Is it peace of mind? What is it that we want from life that makes us tick? If we had lots of money would that fulfill our desires? Would power to do what we want, make us content? Would the ability to fulfill our sexual desires when and where we wanted, be enough to make us happy, satisfied, pleasured? We see others with many of the things that we wish we had, that we desire to have, that we strive to achieve in this life. What do we really want?
Some are fortunate enough to have the things that we desire. Many are less so. And it is those few who have, those few we look up to, with passion in our hearts, that we wish to have the same lifestyle they have. Yet only a few will achieve that life. Only a few will reach that top. Only a few will be chosen to have the riches that they see others with. The many will strive but fall short of reaching that goal.
Christ told his disciples that life will not always be the same. He told them that there will come an end to life when all will be destroyed. He gave them signs to look for, told them what wonders would happen, spoke to them about people who would become false prophets in order to lead many astray. Yet there would be no secret meetings, no special conferences, no general sessions that only the few would know about. The end would come for everyone to see, for everyone to know. He told them, just as the lightning comes from the east and shines even to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
He came in the beginning as the son of a carpenter, the son of Joseph and Mary. Yet he came that man would have life, a second chance at life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind. Christ came once to forgive sins; he will come again to end the sins of the world. What do you want? Do you want the riches that the world has to offer now, or do you want a second chance at eternal life? In the end there will be no haves and have nots. All will see, all will know, all will understand that he is the one who gives life to the world.
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 and 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.
