To Focus on What Lasts
Patient Lord,
As I await your return on the Last Day, I can easily slip into indifference or complacency. I treat your warning like the boy who cried wolf, tending to disregard it as a false alarm with each year and then decade that passes by. Yet it is this very reality that illustrates why you provided the warning to be ready in the first place. Help me to heed it!
I do that by focusing on what lasts. Ultimately, all of the stuff of this world will pass away and be forgotten. So keep me focused instead on what lasts: your Word. Not only will your Word endure until the end, but it will always be powerful and effective until that time as well. Therefore, let it permeate my life. Rather than just an occasional Sunday morning book reading, let your Word dwell in my life richly. As I focus on it more, use Scripture to sculpt and shape my soul and my mind, so that I live for you now while I look for you in the future.
In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.