Dear Family:
A few years ago, I heard Foursquare Evangelist Jean Darnell
share a dream she had. To the best of my
recollection, it went like this:
Jean had been taken up to heaven and was
given a tour. While she marveled at the
immaculate beauty and awesome wonder of the place, her attention was drawn to
an angel sitting alongside the gold-paved street with his back to her. When she walked up to him, he had a deeply
pensive, perplexed expression, and she wondered what this glorious, amazing
angel could possibly be so troubled about.
Just then, he turned around and looked at her and asked,
"What
time is it?"
Jean immediately woke up. Every bit as
perplexed as the angel, she said in her heart,
"Lord
that was a rather dumb question the angel asked me!"
The Lord quickly answered back,
"Looking at the way most of you
Christians are living, the angel is rightly wondering do you all really know
what time it is!!"
It's almost cliché to say,
"Jesus is coming back soon."
And it's all too rare to find a believer or church living as if they're
actually expecting Him. Do the lives we
live individually and collectively reflect the earnest conviction that Jesus
could appear today? Take a moment to
bring to mind the issues that have occupied your thoughts this past week. Can you truly say you've been concerned with
God's agenda? I hope so.
It is my deepest desire to see
souls saved, but I also long to see those who name Christ as Savior living for
Him with reckless abandon. When people meet or fellowship with us, let them
find the sweet fragrance of God's active presence in all we say and do. When they tell others about us, let them be
able to say we are people who speak the
truth, feed the poor, visit the sick and imprisoned, pray fervently and
continuously, and love all men in Jesus Christ.
Let us live and work like a church that has much to do and only a little
while to do it. After all, we do
know what time it is . . . it’s time to we live completely for Jesus!
Love,
Pastor Eric
