Are people supposed to feel bad if they have been watching for the return of CHRIST and HE hasn’t come yet? I mean it is a mandate for the Christian in the Bible. The Bible even talks about those who question watching as mockers: “Where is the promise of HIS coming?” If you think about it, anyone who has passed on before will stand before the LORD to give an account of their life. Would it be better to be found watching for HIM, or not? Or even mocking people who are watching? Personally, I vote for being found watching….
Let’s look even closer at this thing of those who have been watching despite the LORD not appearing yet. When people question someone who is watching and has been watching for a while, you would almost think that person decided that it was a good idea to watch. The reality is that no one pursues GOD, even to the point of watching for HIM, apart from the intervention of GOD. It is the HOLY SPIRIT WHO draws us to CHRIST because there is NOTHING good in us apart from GOD’s goodness to determine that we need GOD without the supernatural drawing of the HOLY SPIRIT.
So when it comes to watching for JESUS, from this day forward, do it without regret. If you are compelled to watch, you can’t help yourself, you have been drawn supernaturally to do it. You can’t really take credit for it either. If you are an avid watcher, thank GOD for the SPIRIT of GOD that has drawn you to watch. JESUS is the AUTHOR and FINISHER, so watch unapologetically.
Matthew 24:42 (KJV): Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Matthew 24:43 (KJV): But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Matthew 25:13 (KJV): Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Mark 13:28-33 (KJV): 28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: 29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. 30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. 31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. 33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Mark 13:34 (KJV): For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Mark 13:35 (KJV): Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Mark 13:37 (KJV): And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Luke 12:37 (KJV): Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Luke 12:39 (KJV): And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Luke 21:36 (KJV): Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
