Your situation or the situation around you may be beyond your understanding, but it is not beyond God’s. This is one of the most comforting verses to cling to when you are facing uncertainty or difficulty in your life. (Proverbs 3:5-6, New International Version) Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight. Below is a list of 21 reminders of that truth.ĭownload This Wallpaper for Your Smartphone When unexpected times come, everyone needs to be reminded that God is good, in control and trustworthy even if everything seems out of control. In December 2019, no one planned New Year's resolutions with COVID-19 in mind. Even with the best plans and intentions, no one can predict for sure what will come their way in life. Verse 34 gives a clear clue that some of these RED words deal with their immediate first century future.Life is unpredictable. Certainly, since only the Father knows the day and the hour, we are to trust that to Him alone. We are to live with momentary awareness, not dwelling on what did or did not occur on a given day. We are to live in patient surrender, not with defeated spirits. We are to live in expectation, not in desperation. We are to live in anticipation, not in fear. Be ready personally, but be sharing perpetually.
Our character speaks so loud, folks can’t hear a word we are saying! Live for Jesus. Our witness is our word, but also our way of life. That means we are to spend our time sharing with folks about the gospel by allowing them to see Jesus lived out in our daily lives. Our main assignment is to be ready and prepared personally at all times for the rapture. He affirms that His words will outlive the earth He created. Jesus says it is acceptable for us to look for signs but signs are not to be our priority. Just like the fig tree in our Scripture passage today, there are visible signs that alert us to its time for fruit production.
This coming will be an unmistakeable, cataclysmic, universally visible, world wide event. This coming will be different from the rapture. We have also learned that the second coming of Jesus will occur seven years after the rapture. In 1Thessalonians 4:13-18, Paul confirms that at that time, we will be forever with the Lord. At the moment of the rapture, all believers will be “joint airs” as we travel with Jesus to the place He has prepared for us. In Romans 8:17, Paul declares that we are “joint heirs” with Jesus.
It will be a joint meeting of those who have died in Christ and been buried. We have learned from our study that the rapture of the church will be a sudden, quiet, unobserved, instantaneous “catching away” of those who remain on earth at the time. First: we are never to be a “doomsday prepper” but we are to abide in Jesus as a “this day stepper.” Second: There will be an END. Here are the two main conclusions I have gleaned from our study of Matthew 24. Then as we walk away to continue living out our infinitesimal section of world history, we can spend our time doing the things He has commanded us to do while we wait: work, walk, watch, worship and witness as we welcome others into the amazing plan of God. We can take all of our questions and lay them gently in the lap of Jesus and feel His hug. The title itself is an imperative for us: “Trust God’s Timing.” Wow. This week’s lesson will explain a few of the “whys” of how we feel. Even reading the “red words” as recorded in Matthew 24 from the very mouth of Jesus our Savior, we still are left with a sense of the wonder of it all. Learners listen, hoping to find answers to questions they have always wanted to ask but didn’t even know how to! We ALL come away from these study sessions with more questions than we have answers. Most teachers feel inadequate to teach these sections of scripture. To the person, they have each expressed various concerns about studying this passage of scripture in Matthew 24 called “The Olivet Discourse.” These are the same concerns I have observed over the years when the passage studied has been The Revelation, the Book of Daniel, the Book of Ezekiel or any other “end times” prophecy passage. While preparing to study and write this unit of lessons, I have spoken to several of our teachers as well as several of our learners.
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