...Before He Splits the Sky

March 8

Indeed, the indication is that Jesus will soon come to claim His bride—the Church—and the events of the end time will unfold. Most of us who believe in the Lord as Savior and soon-coming King have mixed emotions in the matter. On the one hand, we truly do long for His coming. On the other, we have attachments that we despair of letting go.

We know we are to hold the things of earth in a light grasp. We know that whether Jesus comes today or whether His return is millennia away, we will individually be required to stand before Him and we will be judged by the thoughts of our minds, the sentiments of our hearts, the actions of our doing, and especially, by what we did regarding Jesus as Savior.

We know He has said, “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with Me and I will give to everyone according to what he has done” Revelation 22:12. We know He has said through the Apostle Peter, “The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by the fervent heat and the earth and all it contains will be laid bare” II Peter 3:10.

With those sobering thoughts in mind, we know we might not have the luxury of a ‘death bed conversion.’ Whatever we are going to do with Jesus, we must have it done before He splits the sky and comes to take His Church to be with Him for eternity. His warning is clear, “You must be ready because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you think not” Luke 12:40.