We Must Be Busy About Our Father’s Business
Although none of us want to live in such a time (myself included), and we hope it won’t go this way, it is looking virtually inevitable that it will.
The LORD has told me for years that the current days are ‘softball’ compared to what is coming (that has been always been something I didn’t want to hear).
But rather than viewing this fatalistically, I now view it as something which for myself should change and motivate me in the present.
Not as burden or fear or self-condemnation, but as diligence, passion, reliance of God’s grace and personal holiness.
Not as obsession over what may be in the present, but as sight on the eternal realm and kingdom realities already present within me and other believers.
When the future is seen through the lens of great peril, and the stakes can’t be raised any higher, the present choices we make, actions we take, love we show, and prayers we pray become all the more crucial, effectual, and influential, both for ourselves and the future we will likely live through and the eternal realm we will eventually come to.
Everything takes on a great sense of ‘presentness’, everything matters more than ever before, and hearing and obeying the Shepherd is a must.
These are days which the enemy tells us to waste and be ignorant and uncaring of, because by contrast the Bible tells us to make the most of the time we have (Ephesians 5:16) and to make the most of every opportunity.
Jesus himself showed us that we must be busy about our Father’s business.
Our natural state tells us to protect ourselves and our earthly treasures while Jesus told us to give our lives and treasures to build eternal treasure in Heaven.
The world tells us to not speak of Jesus and be timid, hiding ourselves from its sight, but Jesus told us to shine our light and be as bold as lions (Proverbs 28:1).
Modern culture tells us to go into a stupor and simply enjoy our lives; Jesus tells us to watch and pray, to be ready for His return, and to use the talents we have been given lest we suddenly find ourselves standing before Him, embarrassed, and in great eternal danger (Matthew 25:26-30).
No one likes to say it publicly (which I fully empathise with), nevertheless the future is coming like a freight train.
It will meet us with incredible impact whether we are ready for it or not. Nevertheless, history seems to be on the side of those Christians who didn’t fear what was coming, but instead trusted God, built their Ark, warned a wicked world, did all they could to love well, lay up for eternity, and pray with great fervency.
Time to build a firm foundation for the Age to come.
Time to live, love, and act well for Jesus, now.
LORD help us! Holy Spirit strengthen us!
“redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:16.
“The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.” Proverbs 28:1.
“But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness,”” Matthew 25:26-30.
~ Tim Price
Tim Price has a prophetic heart to warn God’s people about the coming end-time storm, and to encourage them to stand and trust Him through it. He shares the dreams God gives him on his YouTube channel and Making Straight His Path blog.
Amen and AMEN