[A detail from Rogier van der Weyden's Last Judgment]
When the Lord returns, He will come as a thief in the night. And that will be a glorious day for all who trust in Christ, and a great day of horror for all who have lived a life without trusting Christ. Jesus' death on the Cross; His shed blood; and His broken body, is the only means for a sinner to have his, or her sins forgiven.
And so if we have trusted Christ, and are His, and are forgiven, and even righteous in His grace and mercy, then we needn't worry about His return, but instead long for it and be excited about it.
Our duty, and our heart should be mainly focused on sharing the kingdom of God; the Gospel of Christ.
Charles Spurgeon says this:
"As for you, your business is to work for the spreading of His kingdom, to be continually scattering the light you have and praying more, to be waiting upon God for more tongue of fire, for more of the baptism of the Eternal Spirit, for more vital, quickening power. When the whole church shall be awakened up to a spirit of earnestness and enterprise, the conversion of this world will be speedily accomplished; the idols will then be cast to the moles and the bats; antichrist shall sink like a millstone in the flood, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it."
Jesus said he was going to build His Church, -which is a Temple in which He Himself resides,-and this will surely happen, and the powers of hell will have nothing to say about it. They will certainly fight the building of the Church, but Christ will only use this for the good. Everything our Lord does is for the good of His elect children, and mostly for the glory of His Father, and His grace; no matter how bad it might seem to us, the Lord is faithful to His promise, and His promise is eternal truth, and can never be thwarted, nor broken. And that is an encouraging thought.
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