What Did Jesus Say About the End Times? Part 2
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Stay awake! Stay awake! It could be in the evening.
Stay awake! Stay awake! It could be at midnight.
Stay awake! Stay awake! It could be when the rooster crows.
Stay awake! Stay awake! It could be in the morning.
Bottom line, “He might come suddenly.” His coming is imminent. It could happen at any time, including today. You don’t want Him to find you asleep, unprepared. Not doing the work He has given you. Oh, how tragic it would be for our Lord to return and find His church asleep at the wheel, neglecting her assignment, squandering her resources, deceiving herself into thinking He won’t come today. How tragic to say, “Tomorrow, I will get busy serving Him,” only to discover tomorrow is never coming. So again Jesus sounds the warning “to everyone: Be alert!” If He said it once, that should be sufficient. That He says it four times should really get our attention. “Be alert” and serve Him today. Tomorrow may never arrive!
Leila Naylor Morris (1862-1929) wrote more than a thousand gospel songs. I cannot help wondering if our text was a source of inspiration for Leila Morris when she penned the words to the song, “What If It Were Today?” (1912).
Jesus is coming to earth again, what if it were today?
Coming in power and love to reign, what if it were today?
Coming to claim His chosen Bride, all the redeemed and purified,
Over this whole earth scattered wide; what if it were today?
Satan’s dominion will then be o’er, O that it were today!
Sorrow and sighing shall be no more, O that it were today!
Then shall the dead in Christ arise, caught up to meet Him in the skies,
When shall these glories meet our eyes? What if it were today?
Faithful and true would He find us here, if He should come today?
Watching in gladness and not in fear, if He should come today?
Signs of His coming multiply; morning light breaks in eastern sky.
Watch, for the time is drawing high; what if it were today?
Glory, glory! Joy to my heart ’twill bring.
Glory, glory! When we shall crown Him King.
319Glory, Glory! Haste to prepare the way.
Glory, Glory! Jesus will come someday.
Jesus is coming again! So “be alert, since you don’t know when the master of the house is coming.”