Delayed

 

I have discovered that I have a washing machine that is smarter than I am.  It has many features, one of which I just found out last night.  I had put a load of clothes into the washer, just getting ready to start it when I remembered that my wife was upstairs taking a shower.  Yikes!  That was close!  But then I noticed the “time delay” button and began to investigate.  I could delay the start for 1 hour or two hours, and so forth up to twelve hours!  Wow, what a great feature!  So, I delayed the start for one hour (when my wife is finished with her shower), although she will hear a noise downstairs after we’ve gone to bed and think it’s a burglar.  My great idea may come back to bite me.  Often, I wonder why the dear Lord has delayed His second coming.  So, why is he waiting?  What is He waiting for?  And why doesn’t the Lord come back sooner than later?  Well, much is said in the Bible about the second coming of the Lord.  It will be sudden, and it will be quick.  Paul said in I Thessalonians 4:16-18, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”  What wonderful, comforting words!  The Lord Jesus is waiting for just one more person to be born into His forever family.  Jesus Christ does not want anyone to miss out on His eternal life!  II Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”  And when the family of God is complete, Jesus will come quickly and powerfully to catch us all up to be with Him forever and forever!  I am so glad that Jesus delayed his coming until after April 17, 1956, because that’s when I got into His forever family.  Hey, have you become a part of God’s forever family?  Now would be a great time to make that decision.  Don’t “delay”.  Do it now before it’s eternally too late.