How Should We Live Until Christ Returns?
We live in an age of deception, moral confusion, false teaching, spiritual complacency, and increasing hostility toward biblical truth. Yet none of this has taken God by surprise.
Our King has not left His people without instructions.
While we eagerly await His return, Scripture gives every believer at least three callings that should shape how we think, speak, and live.
🕊️ 1. We Are Ambassadors
"Now then we are ambassadors for Christ..." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
An ambassador does not represent himself. He represents his King.
Our citizenship is in heaven (Philippians 3:20), yet God has intentionally stationed us here as His representatives. Our words, priorities, convictions, and conduct should reflect the Kingdom of Christ, not the spirit of this age. We plead with a lost world to be reconciled to God because today is the day of salvation, but judgment is coming.
As Charles Spurgeon observed:
"Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor."
Whether across the street or across the world, every believer has been sent by the King.
🧂 2. We Are Salt and Light
"You are the salt of the earth... You are the light of the world." (Matthew 5:13-16)
Salt preserves what is good and restrains corruption.
Light exposes darkness and points people toward truth.
The Church was never commissioned to blend into the culture, but to influence it. We are called to live holy lives, speak the truth in love, defend sound doctrine, show compassion without compromising conviction, and point people to the only Savior. A dim light changes nothing. Salt that has lost its savor is useless. Christ calls His people to be unmistakably different in both character and witness.
👀 3. We Are Watchmen
"I have made you a watchman..." (Ezekiel 33:7)
A watchman stays awake while others sleep.
He watches for danger outside the city, but he also watches for danger within.
Today that means warning about false teachers, counterfeit gospels, compromise, worldliness, and anything that draws God's people away from sound doctrine. Love warns because love protects.
As A. W. Tozer warned:
"Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth."
Jesus repeatedly commanded His disciples:
"Watch therefore..." (Matthew 24:42)
"What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch." (Mark 13:37)
Those who believe in the imminent return of Christ understand that the darkest hours often come just before dawn. We faithfully persevere through the third watch and even into the fourth, knowing our Lord may come at any moment.
Until then, we are to "occupy till I come" (Luke 19:13), "earnestly contend for the faith" (Jude 3), and keep "looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" (Titus 2:13).
The world needs faithful ambassadors.
The Church needs courageous watchmen.
The lost need the light of Christ.
"The night is far spent, the day is at hand..." (Romans 13:12).
May our King find us faithfully representing His Kingdom, preserving truth in a decaying world, shining brightly in the darkness, standing our watch with discernment and courage, and joyfully awaiting His glorious return.
Remember this, saints — it is written:
The man of sin, the son of perdition, **cannot** be revealed until the falling away comes first.
2 Thessalonians 2:3— “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.”
The great apostasy must ripen. The professing church must depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. The love of many shall wax cold. The harlot system must rise in power. Only then shall the Wicked One step onto the stage.
Keep your eyes on the Word, not on the headlines. The falling away is accelerating before our very eyes — and the stage is being set.
Watch therefore, and be sober.
The Lord Jesus is coming for His bride, and He will not be late. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
The rampant perversion of the Gospel in these last days is the very sign of the soon coming of the Lord Jesus Christ!
The whole professing body is sick from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot — full of apostasy, wounds, bruises, and putrifying sores that have not been closed, nor bound up, nor mollified with ointment. (Isaiah 1:5-6)
They have turned the grace of God into lasciviousness, changed the truth of God into a lie, and corrupted the pure words of the AV1611 with every wind of doctrine, seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.
Yet fear not, saints of the Most High — our redemption draweth nigh!
Christ Jesus is coming!
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Maranatha! 🔥
@QueenMother1976 There’s a Prophecy that in the Last Days the love of many will “grow cold”. I believe that also covers what is happening in these situations. People have lost their ability to understand what’s happening to our elderly.
“I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone.
Every day, older patients call us confused.
They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link.
Some of them do not know what a portal is.
Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.
He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.
He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.
But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.
Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.
Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.
~Unknown
BREAKING NEWS: Jesus looked down from the cross and saw every sin you would ever commit. And chose to die anyway. That is not religion. That is love that has no limit.