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I don't think, friends, that I need to deal with the question of when all this is going to happen.
2
You know as well as I that the day of the Master's coming can't be posted on our calendars. He won't call ahead and make an appointment any more than a burglar would.
3
About the time everybody's walking around complacently, congratulating each other - "We've sure got it made! Now we can take it easy!" - suddenly everything will fall apart. It's going to come as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman.
4
But friends, you're not in the dark, so how could you be taken off guard by any of this?
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You're sons of Light, daughters of Day. We live under wide open skies and know where we stand.
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So let's not sleepwalk through life like those others. Let's keep our eyes open and be smart.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.