“YOU DO NOT EXPECT!”

Luke 12:35-40 (ESV)
“35 "Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning,
36 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.
37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.
38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!
39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
40 YOU ALSO MUST BE READY, for the SON of MAN is coming at AN HOUR “YOU DO NOT EXPECT”." 

For me, it is shameful that I sometimes operate my life in such a nonchalant manner when it comes to alerting people that JESUS is coming again, maybe today! There should be an urgency, an almost immediacy, to proclaim that JESUS is returning to “this world” that we share it like food, a necessity for LIFE!  

Yet I (or my flesh (Romans 7:15-20)) would prefer going to a meeting with other Believers, soaking up more and more Spiritual nourishment, than to “Go ye therefore” (Matthew 28:19-20) and proclaim the GOOD NEWS! Recently seeing numerous social media posts about a gathering of FAITH people in a city, my thoughts were caused to wonder, “Oh, for man to exhibit as much excitement about hearing from our CREATOR as they do about hearing from HIS CREATED!?!?! These are all knowledgeable and sound instruments (men), but BEING STILL and knowing HE IS GOD is still far greater than hearing from men!!!” Now I realize that we all need to have our tools sharpened (Proverbs 27:17), but HIS KINGDOM needs us to be SPIRIT FILLED a lot more than hearing from other broken vessels!

Conviction has been moving me lately to TRUST HIM more and rely less on the things of “this world”. A text just came to me saying “One wonders if GOD trusts us with as much as we trust HIM with? (1 Timothy 1:11; 2 Timothy 1:12)! We (mainly I) need to be relying on ALMIGHTY GOD to reveal HIMSELF to us and finding HIM where we “DO NOT EXPECT” to see HIM! The SPIRIT OF GOD must be present to change a heart. We can plan and orchestrate to our extreme, but ONLY GOD can bring revival to our land! 

WE ALSO MUST BE READY whenever we SEE a need to share JESUS, no matter how much we think we know, or more probably DON’T KNOW! JESUS may present an opportunity right when “YOU DO NOT EXPECT” it, for the HOLY SPIRIT is not limited to seminary taught and suit clad “ministers”! BE READY, for the HOLY SPIRIT may be ready when “YOU DO NOT EXPECT” HIM!!!