“NO ONE KNOWS!”

 Mark 13:32-37                        (ESV)

“[32] “But concerning that day or that hour, “NO ONE KNOWS”, not even the angels in heaven, nor the SON, but ONLY THE FATHER. [33] Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. [34] 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. [35] 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—[36] lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. [37] And what I say to you I say to all: STAY AWAKE.””

As a people, most of us WANT TO KNOW, to be informed and knowledgeable about life and what we are going to experience in it.  We want to plan for next week, next year, for children, then for grandchildren, retirement, declining health, and on and on!  We want to PREPARE for what MIGHT happen in the future, but “NO ONE KNOWS” what is coming in our lives, ONLY THE FATHER!

JESUS was instructing HIS CHOSEN (the disciples) “…what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?” (Mark 13:4).  They wanted TO KNOW, but JESUS wants us ALL to WALK BY FAITH.  We need to TRUST GOD for even our next breath, yet we want TO KNOW what that breath will bring.  

I would probably have done a few things differently had I known what was going to happen July 09, 2007?  What GOD displayed to me was that HE doesn’t require my assistance to “change the world”!  HE doesn’t even have to have me taking my next breath.  HE can arrange that for me, with or without my consent!  A 52 day hospital stay, learning how to walk and talk again, having my life perspective completely changed did not require any input from this humble servant.  Almost ten years later I worked in the yard most of the day.  By the time the next Tuesday was here I was on an operating table with doctors operating on my heart!  In less than two weeks I was back at the office.  

“NO ONE KNOWS” what the future holds for their lives.   We CERTAINLY don’t KNOW when ALMIGHTY GOD is going to send JESUS back.  One thing we DO KNOW, JESUS WILL COME BACK, and it will be a GLORIOUS DAY for a few of us!  It won’t be a good time for those who aren’t PREPARED FOR THAT DAY!  “NO ONE KNOWS” when, but we DO KNOW we are closer now than we have ever been!!!