WJD! -- Longing for the Son of Man -- Luke 17:22-24

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Longing for the Son of Man

Then Jesus said to his followers, "The time will come when
you will want very much to see one of the days of the Son of
Man, but you will not be able. People will say to you, 'Look,
there it is!' or, 'Look, here it is!' Stay where you are;
don't go away and search. "{You will know it} when the Son of
Man comes again. On the day when he comes he will shine like
lightning flashes across the sky."

-- Luke 17:22-24 (ERV)

KEY THOUGHT:
Jesus warns about two things important to disciples. First, they will
long for the presence of the Son of Man -- in other words, Jesus will
be leaving them. Second, after Jesus has returned to God, people will
make false claims that Jesus has returned and trouble his disciples
into thinking they have missed his return. To the latter warning, Jesus
makes a promise that when he returns, no one will miss his coming and
no one will doubt his return. His return will be as clear as lightning
which shatters the darkness of the night sky. As Christians, we wait in
hope for this day and we long for the appearing of the Son of Man.
Until that day and while we feel this longing, let's make every moment
count as we live to honor our returning Lord and King!

TODAY'S PRAYER:
God, my Abba Father, I long for the day I come home to you and share in
the glory of your Son and the angels that will accompany him on his
return for your children. Until that day, empower me to live boldly for
you. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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Today's Verse : Psalm 96:9

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VERSE:
Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness; tremble before
him, all the earth.
-- Psalm 96:9

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THOUGHT:
Don't you really appreciate the phrase "the splendor of his
holiness" and long to behold that splendor? It conjures up
reminders of Isaiah's encounter with God in Isaiah 6 or John's
vision of Jesus in Revelation 1. God's essence -- known in the Old
Testament as his glory and his holiness -- can be described only as
splendorous! Our only fitting response is to join the angels of
Isaiah 6 and the twenty-four elders around the throne in Revelation
and worship God and cry, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God
Almighty. The whole earth is full of his glory."

PRAYER:
You are holy, majestic God, more than my mind can grasp or my
imagination can dream. I worship and praise you for your glory,
might, grace, and mercy. I hunger for the day when I can see your
splendor face to face and join the angels of heaven and the
twenty-four elders in never ending worship and praise. Through
Jesus I offer this praise and my life. Amen.

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Today's KJV Verse : Psalm 96:9

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VERSE:
O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him,
all the earth.
-- Psalm 96:9

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THOUGHT:
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holiness" and long to behold that splendor? It conjures up
reminders of Isaiah's encounter with God in Isaiah 6 or John's
vision of Jesus in Revelation 1. God's essence -- known in the Old
Testament as his glory and his holiness -- can be described only as
splendorous! Our only fitting response is to join the angels of
Isaiah 6 and the twenty-four elders around the throne in Revelation
and worship God and cry, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God
Almighty. The whole earth is full of his glory."

PRAYER:
You are holy, majestic God, more than my mind can grasp or my
imagination can dream. I worship and praise you for your glory,
might, grace, and mercy. I hunger for the day when I can see your
splendor face to face and join the angels of heaven and the
twenty-four elders in never ending worship and praise. Through
Jesus I offer this praise and my life. Amen.

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Learn to Pray Persistently (1)

Learn to Pray Persistently (1)
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Luke 18:1 And He told them a parable to the end that they ought
always to pray and not lose heart, 2 Saying, There was a
certain judge in a certain city who did not fear God and did
not regard man. 3 And there was a widow in that city, and she
kept coming to him, saying, Avenge me of my opponent. 4 And for
a time he would not; but afterward he said within himself, Even
though I do not fear God nor regard man, 5 Yet because this
widow causes me trouble, I will avenge her, lest by continually
coming she wear me out. 6 And the Lord said, Hear what the
unrighteous judge says. 7 And will not God by all means carry
out the avenging of His chosen ones, who cry to Him day and
night, though He is long- suffering over them? 8 I tell you
that He will carry out their avenging quickly. Nevertheless,
when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?
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[Part 1 of 2]
The widow in verse 3 signifies the believers. In a sense, the
believers in Christ are a widow in the present age because
their Husband Christ (2 Cor. 11:2) is absent from them. In this
parable the Lord indicates that the believers in Christ have an
opponent. This opponent is Satan, the Devil, concerning whom we
need God's avenging. We ought to pray persistently for this
avenging and not lose heart. Actually, the Lord is not absent;
He is present. But during His apparent absence, we are a widow
whose opposer is troubling her all the time.

While our opposer is persecuting us, it seems that our God is
not righteous, for He allows His children to be unrighteously
persecuted. For example, John the Baptist was beheaded, Peter
was martyred, Paul was imprisoned, and John was exiled.
Throughout the centuries, thousands upon thousands of honest
and faithful followers of the Man-Savior have suffered
unrighteous persecution. Even today we are still undergoing
unrighteous mistreatment. Our God seems to be unjust, since He
does not come in to judge and vindicate.

Because of this situation, the Man-Savior in 18:1-8 uses an
unjust judge to signify God who does not seem to do anything on
behalf of His persecuted people. What shall we do in a
situation when we are persecuted and it seems that our God is
not living, present, or just? From this parable we learn to be
a bothering widow, one who prays to God persistently. It seems
that He is not righteous. Nevertheless, I have learned that we
need to bother God in prayer, that we should pray to Him
persistently without losing heart.
[Continued tomorrow]
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When You Don't Know the Way, by Tim Archer

I'll admit to a moment of panic. I was in Brazil, traveling with two
other people, one of them Brazilian. It was comforting to travel with
someone who knew the language and knew exactly where we were going. We
were taking a flight from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. Instead of
walking through a jetway, we rode out to the plane on buses. As luck
would have it, my colleagues were placed on the first bus, while I had
to wait for the second one. I wasn't too concerned, since I knew that
we'd still end up in the same place. I calmly watched their bus depart,
then boarded mine and left to join them.

But, when I got on the plane and found the row where our seats were, my
friends weren't there! That's when I felt a twinge of panic. I knew
they had to be on the plane, yet I couldn't find them anywhere. I had
no idea how to get to where I was going, and I had no idea how to find
the people that did know. I quickly turned to one of the stewardesses
and asked her, in Spanish, if this was the plane to Rio de Janeiro.
Speaking Spanish in a Portuguese-speaking country is a desperate ploy,
but she understood my question and assured me that I was on the correct
flight. She continued to give me further information in Portuguese, but
I was no longer trying to understand her, as I saw my colleagues coming
through the door of the plane. For some reason, their bus had taken a
long time in getting from the terminal to the plane. I was in the right
place after all.

Luckily, when it comes to our spiritual lives, we can always know the
way.

On the night that Jesus was arrested, He told His disciples that He was
going somewhere to prepare a place for them. He told them that they
knew the way to where He was going. Thomas replied, "Lord, we don't
know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" And that's when
Jesus spoke these famous words: "I am the way and the truth and the
life." (John 14:3-6)

Not knowing the way is an unpleasant feeling. It's all right when we
can depend on someone else, but when we're all alone, feeling lost is
pretty scary. Luckily, when it comes to our spiritual lives, we can
always know the way. Jesus is the way. We can put our trust in Him,
knowing that He will always take us where we need to be. To get past
our feelings of being lost in this world, all we really need to know is
Jesus.

If you feel unsure of your way, maybe I can help you find Him. Write to
me at tim@hopeforlife.org, and I'll tell you about He who is the way.
You'll never have to feel lost again. [Have some thoughts on this
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MORNING:

"Faultless before the presence of his glory."
-- Jude 24

Revolve in your mind that wondrous word, "faultless!" We are far off
from it now; but as our Lord never stops short of perfection in his
work of love, we shall reach it one day. The Saviour who will keep his
people to the end, will also present them at last to himself, as "a
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but
holy and without blemish." All the jewels in the Saviour's crown are of
the first water and without a single flaw. All the maids of honour who
attend the Lamb's wife are pure virgins without spot or stain. But how
will Jesus make us faultless? He will wash us from our sins in his own
blood until we are white and fair as God's purest angel; and we shall
be clothed in his righteousness, that righteousness which makes the
saint who wears it positively faultless; yea, perfect in the sight of
God. We shall be unblameable and unreproveable even in his eyes. His
law will not only have no charge against us, but it will be magnified
in us. Moreover, the work of the Holy Spirit within us will be
altogether complete. He will make us so perfectly holy, that we shall
have no lingering tendency to sin. Judgment, memory, will-every power
and passion shall be emancipated from the thraldom of evil. We shall be
holy even as God is holy, and in his presence we shall dwell for ever.
Saints will not be out of place in heaven, their beauty will be as
great as that of the place prepared for them. Oh the rapture of that
hour when the everlasting doors shall be lifted up, and we, being made
meet for the inheritance, shall dwell with the saints in light. Sin
gone, Satan shut out, temptation past for ever, and ourselves
"faultless" before God, this will be heaven indeed! Let us be joyful
now as we rehearse the song of eternal praise so soon to roll forth in
full chorus from all the blood-washed host; let us copy David's
exultings before the ark as a prelude to our ecstasies before the
throne.

EVENING:

"And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I
will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible."
-- Jeremiah 15:21

Note the glorious personality of the promise. I will, I will. The Lord
Jehovah himself interposes to deliver and redeem his people. He pledges
himself personally to rescue them. His own arm shall do it, that he may
have the glory. Here is not a word said of any effort of our own which
may be needed to assist the Lord. Neither our strength nor our weakness
is taken into the account, but the lone I, like the sun in the heavens,
shines out resplendent in all-sufficience. Why then do we calculate our
forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding?
Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm. Peace, ye
unbelieving thoughts, be still, and know that the Lord reigneth. Nor is
there a hint concerning secondary means and causes. The Lord says
nothing of friends and helpers: he undertakes the work alone, and feels
no need of human arms to aid him. Vain are all our lookings around to
companions and relatives; they are broken reeds if we lean upon
them-often unwilling when able, and unable when they are willing. Since
the promise comes alone from God, it would be well to wait only upon
him; and when we do so, our expectation never fails us. Who are the
wicked that we should fear them? The Lord will utterly consume them;
they are to be pitied rather than feared. As for terrible ones, they
are only terrors to those who have no God to fly to, for when the Lord
is on our side, whom shall we fear? If we run into sin to please the
wicked, we have cause to be alarmed, but if we hold fast our integrity,
the rage of tyrants shall be overruled for our good. When the fish
swallowed Jonah, he found him a morsel which he could not digest; and
when the world devours the church, it is glad to be rid of it again. In
all times of fiery trial, in patience let us possess our souls.

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