But Lord, I was just about to …….  Are you praying for the Lord to return or not?  If you are like me there is an internal struggle.  Sometimes it goes away and I can be certain for moments, days or weeks that I am looking skyward for the signs of Kingdom’s Come.  However, honesty calls me to say that there are moments I find myself saying Lord if you could only wait until after “this” happens.  And other times, I selfishly want rapture to come to get me out of here so I don’t have to face the wrath of the lamb or the coming days of Jacob’s trouble.  This is weakness, lack of faith and attachment to worldly treasure/outcome.  Wow, I know that these words sting, but why shouldn’t they be said, especially when I am the topic of criticism?

The simple fact is that I was made to do the Lord’s work, period.  I was not designed and breathed to life to serve my own interests, financial and otherwise, but rather to fulfill particular aspects of the Lord’s plan.  Yes, I am to have a life of abundance as a bi-product of living for the Lord.  He made me, then saved me, then remade me and continues to bless me with growth, pain and joy.  This is no longer my life.  I am a slave to righteousness, purchased by the blood of an innocent man, who coincidentally was also God.  Yes I can be thankful that blessings of wealth, health and prosperity come  my way as result of obedience, but those things were not made to be my purpose.

Father, episodes, predictions and circumstances of Your Word are patently clear.  A discerning man, looking at the sky sees the coming storm on horizon and calls his family to preparation and shelter.  Why then do we dally as Christians.  What is this delay, this desire to overlook the signs or forestall the inevitable and imminence of Your rapidly, approaching return for the church and judgment.  Let me reach a few Lord and then let them look to Your Word and Prayer for confirmation, and then cause them to take that message to other saints.  This world is going away, whether we will admit it or not.  The evidence is transparent and substantial.  I bless Your Holy name and seek to live a life driven by the sweet song of Your melodious whisper.  Let us be found doing Your work when you come.  Praise Jesus as God the Father and Holy Spirit.  Amen.

http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/?p=8080  Evidence, exhibit One

http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/?p=8068  More, How much do we need before we draw conclusion?