Mark 13: 32- 37 “But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore stay awake-for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning- lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.”
In the hecticness of life, it is natural and easy to lose sight of our destination. We forget most days, weeks, months that Jesus is coming back.
THIS IS NOT ALL THERE IS TO LIFE.
The aroma of life, of busy mornings, quick lunches, soccer games, laundry, shopping, class projects, Sunday sermons, vacations, bills, lawns, shoveling snow, tragedy, weddings, stubbed toes, etc., lull us all into a trance – a cocoon of sorts – that this is our home – We are snuggled up inside our cocoon we call life. We are warm and comfortable and rarely look beyond our shell AS IF THIS WERE OUR HOME.
LADIES AND GENTLEMAN ~ THIS IS NOT OUR HOME.
Jesus is coming back.
Don’t’allow the aroma of life to lull you to sleep. Stay awake. Flee the tentacles of life that can drag you into complacency or apathy. Heed Christ’s warning. STAY AWAKE.
Diane
Diane Hunt is part of the Development and Addiction Recovery teams at America’s Keswick. In addition to being a Biblical Counselor, she is a Women’s speaker for retreats, conferences and events. She is a regular writer for Victory Call and one of the authors of Crossing the Jordan Bible Study. She has been married to her husband John over 28 years. She has 2 adult children and 3 grandchildren and 3 adult step-children with 7 grandchildren making 10 in all. She delights reading and teaching, but mostly laughing at the funny things her grandchildren say and do.
Victory Call 
Good Morning, Diane!
I enjoyed your writing of today, and yes! We MUST “stay awake”, for we know not the hour of His return, but HE
is returning indeed. The sound of the shofar will be heard world-wide and He will be coming for us. Allelujah!
How marvelous that our Messiah died and suffered that we might live….that we might have life and have it more abundantly. Still, we must always remember that He went to prepare a place for us, and those of us who believe
on Him will go there to spend eternity.
Sometimes my thoughts trail back to a history lesson about an archeologist named Howard Carter, and his reaction when he gazed through a small hole at the opening of King Tutankenum’s tomb. Carter excitedly exclaimed, “I see things…..beautiful wondrous things…” Ofcourse, it was still a mystery to the waiting world, as he was the only living being who had seen the treasures King Tut left behind. In a metamorphic sort of way, that scenario reminds me of the heavenly realm. Those who have been there in a near-death experience, return to earth but wish they could have stayed. We know that Heaven will be a beautiful haven, filled with treasures and a peaceful existence with the Triune G-d.
We, too, shall see “wondrous and miraculously-beautiful things.” At that moment we will undoubtedly realize – in a
tranquil sort of way – that the “things” of this earth were fleetingly and exceedingly superficial.
Thank you again, Diane, for this wide-awake reminder of the priorities we must place on our eternal world, rather
than overextend our focus on the carnal world of this human existence.
Stephanie Dickinson
B.S. Min.,B.S.B.S., CCLC
Lancaster, Pa.