I just want to share with you an experience that I recently had nothing new, it is about 6000 years old. Let me put it this way: Something got hold of me last Sabbath. It was not the preacher, not the musicians or the elder. But as a certain Filipino group was presenting a special item of music, entitled " I will meet you in the morning!" the Holy Spirit got hold of me. He took me to that great and final day, when all the redeemed from all over the world will gather before His throne. The Africans will be there, Filipinos will be there, Americans, Brazillians, Europeans and all other unknown parts of the world will be there. Then the question came to me; 'Jeremiah will you be there on that day?' Will you meet these Filipino ladies in the morning? The question does not end up there, but it continues to my friends and family, will they be there? My dear friend will you be there? Will you meet Jesus in the morning?
We all know that Jesus is coming back again, but what we do not realize is that His coming is sooner that most us think. As one Thomas Adams put it "The end in the apostles time was not far off, now, it must be very near, if that were ultima dies, this is altima hora, or if that were ultima hora, last hour, this is ultimum horae, the last minute. Many are waiting for signs and fulfillment of prophecy, yet when we consider how quickly the USSR dissolved, this shows us how change can suddenly happen. Like the Jews of old; watch out that you do not miss the Messiah while waiting for your interpretation of prophecy. AS one Bucanon put it "Christ is in proximo"; He is even at the door. Like an African bridegroom He has already paid his lobola (His sacrifice at Calvary), He can't wait to come back to take His bride home.
Do you believe it my friend? If you do, then proclaim it. To you family "Christ is in proximo", to your neighbor "Christ is in proximo", to your friends "Christ is in proximo", to your colleagues "Christ is in proximo". Let them know that you might be having a temporary house down here, a cottage if you please, but that's not home, your home is in the sky, a city whose builder and maker is God. First of all you need to reserve a place in the city, then you can invite them in.
How will it when we meet our Savior. Baxter put it this way: "If there be such cutting down of boughs and spreading of garments, and crying hosanna, to One that comes into Jerusalem riding on the an ass; what will there be when He comes with angles in His glory? If they that heard Him preach the gospel of the kingdom, have their hearts burned within them, that they return and say 'Never man spake like this man; them sure they that behold His majesty and His kingdom, will say 'Never glory like this glory' So my friend ask God to help you that each day you can tell at least one person that "Christ is in proximo"
I will meet you in the morning!