Quote from the audio message, What Is God Waiting For? Remember that Scripture that said . . . that we quoted, “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior” [Titus 2:13]. Every one of us should be continually every day looking for the blessed hope. When you lose sight of that, you’re carnal. You’ve lost sight of eternity. You can still use religious language and attend church and say prayers, but you’ve lost the joy of the Lord. I’ve observed something that surprised me in my travels. Very often the Christians who have the least in this world, who were poor and persecuted, had the greatest joy—much greater joy than others who had much more in this life. And I came to realize it was because they were focused on eternity, they were looking for what lay ahead. And so, dear brother or sister, if you’re not happy, you’re a Christian, but you’re unfulfilled, you’re frustrated, you may even be angry with God because He hasn’t done the things you wanted Him to do for you; let me suggest to you your basic problem is you’ve lost the vision of eternity. You are only expecting things in this life. Of course, you believe you’ll go to heaven when you die but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about having a vision for eternity. If in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men, Paul said, the most to be pitied. There’s nobody else quite so miserable as the Christian who’s lost the vision of eternity.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:00:00 +0000
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