Time is Short

A Sense of Urgency

I can blame my precious lady for this one. The Lord prompted her to read the Book of Jude this morning. She read some of it out to me and the Lord prompted me to start writing.

Jude 1:10-13 “But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.  Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.  These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;  raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.”

Does this remind you of anything? Today’s society perhaps? The media?

Who do you know who speaks evil of that which he doesn’t know?

Who do you know who is corrupt, a profiteer, and is self-serving?

Who do you know who are “are clouds without water, carried about by the winds”?

Who do you know who ‘foams’ in their own shame?

The list is long, yet such people are simply the lost for whom Jesus died. They are those in power and positions of influence. They are the media. They are big business. They are politicians at all levels. Yet they are also the people all around you – including you!! These are they whom God is calling to repentance and to turn away from their sin. These are like the woman told to “Go and sin no more”. They are the ones whom God loves – He only hates their sin, He loves the people themselves.

These are the “wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.” That’s anyone who doesn’t know the Lord including you and me. Why do we think that so many will spend eternity in heaven who did not know Jesus as their personal Saviour? Jesus is the way the truth and the light – the only way, the only truth, the only light.

This is why I have a sense of urgency for God’s Kingdom work at this time.