Ephesians
singing and making
melody in your heart to the Lord;”
The Music of “LIFE”
Series:
When He Shall Come/ Will Jesus Find Us
Watching?
or
“Here Comes the
Bride”
We who name the name of Jesus as Savior, Jesus as The
Christ, have this hope, this expectation, this promise, that Jesus will return
for His Bride, the Church. It gives
us comfort and a settled peace in knowing that one day we will be with Him
forever. As He has promised “all
tears shall be wiped away” and all the cares and issues of this present life
will be of little consequence, ‘When He Shall
Come’.
Verse 1 :
When He shall come, resplendent in His
glory,
To take His own from
out this vale of night,
O may I know the joy at His appearing---
Only at morn to walk with Him in white!
Verse 3:
When He shall call, from earth’s remotest
corners,
All who have stood triumphant in His
might,
O to be worthy… then to stand beside
them,
And
in that morn to walk with Him in white!
We have this promise and desire to be with Him when He
calls, to see Him as He is!
To rejoice with others who make up the Bride of Christ,
and await all that
Christ
has said and promised, will come to pass. But, the question is ‘Will Jesus Find Us
Watching?’
Verse 1:
When Jesus comes to
reward His servants,
Whether it be
Faithful to Him will He find us
watching,
With our lamps all trimmed and bright?
Verse 2:
If, at the dawn of the early morning,
He shall call us one by one,
When to the Lord we restore our talents,
Will He answer you---“Well done”?
Scripture: Read: Matthew
25:1-13
From verse 1 we see that there
are ten virgins who go to meet the Bridegroom.
Ryrie
notes that “the virgins represent the professing Jewish remnant on earth at His
return.”
This is an account of what is commonly referred to as the Parable of the
Ten Virgins. The setting is the
time of the Lord’s return to reward His faithful servants and to take vengeance
against those who are not faithful.
We are familiar with the story that teaches we must be prepared for His
coming; we must be “watchful”, as it says in verse
13. Not everyone that
names the name of Christ is part of His Bride. Only those who have received Jesus as
their Savior; those who have acknowledged and confessed they are sinners and
have repented of their sin and have turned the control of their lives over to
trusting their lives to Jesus because they believed and accepted His shed blood
at Calvary was for their sin. Jesus
Christ’s finished work paid for our sin in full. Having made this declaration, we are
born-again and have received the Spirit of Christ. Our lives as newborns is one where we
live as unto Christ and await His return.
In our walk of faith, our attitude is to be one of expectation and
vigilance; one of watchfulness; one where we focus on Eternal things until He
does returns.
What then? Can we reap in
Eternal benefits and enjoy a life of God’s blessing without accountability or
responsibility thereafter? This is
not what Jesus had in mind when He told us to “work out our own salvation with
fear and trembling.” – Philippians
2:12b.
I Thessalonians 5:6 tells us to
not “sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober”. We need to be alert and watching for the
enemies of our salvation; we need to be edifying one another. If we will get up and dust off our
spiritually sluggish ways we will find, as it says in Ephesians 5:14, “Christ shall give thee
light.” We are not left as orphans,
alone, to ‘figure it out’…Christ’s light will illumine us, if we will
get up! Get going! Redeem the
time! “Lest coming suddenly He find
you sleeping.” as it says in Mark
Will Jesus Find Us
Watching?
Verse 3:
Have we been true to the trust He left
us?
Do we seek to do our best?
If in our hearts there is naught condemns
us,
We shall have a glorious rest.
Verse 4:
Blessed are those whom the Lord finds
watching,
In His glory they shall share;
If He shall come at the dawn or
Will He find us watching there?
The world sings: “Here Comes the Bride, all
dressed in white…”
Our hope and
expectation as believers and the Bride of
Christ
As we await His return
as we heard in verse 3 of ‘When He Shall
Come’:
When He shall call, from earth’s remotest
corners,
All who have stood triumphant in His
might,
O to be worthy… then to stand beside
them,
And in that morn to walk with Him in white!
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