WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

He who bears witness to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. Revelation 22:20

When I was in a rehabilitation facility regaining my muscle use after a month of non-use in a Covid hospital I received great care—when I received it. The problem was a shortage of nurses. Each one had more patients to care for than they could handle. That meant using my call button could mean a wait of a few minutes, or much longer. My record wait was 2½ hours for my supper one time. (I had to be fed a liquid via a plunger through a feeding tube.) I finally discovered that when the waits got long that I could usually get good results by using my cell phone to call the facility and choosing the nurses’ station. That worked especially well at night.

Now here we are in a sin-sick world pressing the call button and waiting for the Lord to come and deliver us from our woes. Why doesn’t He come? What is He waiting for? The Bible does not answer these questions. But we know that He IS coming. In the meantime, more people are being saved, and we have the opportunity to earn more gold, silver, and precious stones at the bema seat judgement. We know “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). Let's not waste our time while we wait, but pray for and seek to witness to family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and even strangers of Jesus’ payment for sin for anyone who will just believe.

Jeffrey Eno