I will come back and
take you to be with me.
—John 14:3
I haven’t personally made the count, but someone who has wrote that Christ’s second coming is mentioned more than 300 times in the New Testament.
“Okay, but what do I do in the meantime?” you may ask.
First, it might be best to understand what you don’t do. You don’t sit around idly, waiting for the toot of the trumpet. You don’t quit working and studying and doing good. And you don’t get absorbed in date-setting.
You do get your act together, living every day as if it could be your last. And conversely, diligently attending to duty as if his coming could be decades from now.
Above all, you be sure you’re ready to fly. If you wait too long, his coming could become past tense, leaving you regretfully looking back instead of joyfully looking up.
The fact of his return is certain;
the when of his return isn’t.