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Luke 21 25-28 WATCH AND PRAY IV 04 Luke 21 27 Run your race with endurance
📖 Luke 21:25-28
*FRIEND OF GOD*
08Jun2021 - *Run your race with endurance* - _Luke 21:25-28_ - WATCH AND PRAY IV (04) – Bible reading: _Hebrews 12:1-2_
God longs for people to be reconciled with Him and come into the fullness of His kingdom. When we come into His kingdom, we come under His authority and His rule over us. This is the place of the habitat of God, where all our needs, some which we may be aware of and some which we may not be aware of, are all considered and, in His kingdom, there is richness, fullness and abundance.
We, the human race, have cast this relationship with God aside. We have chosen to go our independent ways. We have mocked and ridiculed God. We looked at a relationship with God, where He is King and us His subjects, as a fairy tale that is for children but not for us.
We are now reaping the consequences of our rebellion against the Owner, the Creator, the God of heaven and earth. Before God, we are small, finite and limited, whereas He is the infinite, all-powerful, all-wise God. We have got our perspectives terribly wrong of ourselves.
We should have been sorrowful, remorseful and with a repentant spirit over our rejection of God but instead, we have the audacity and arrogance to blame and accuse God of all the desolation, gloom and grief that is happening in our world today.
_Luke 21:27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with *power and great glory*._
Whenever and wherever people have sought Him with sincerity of heart, He has revealed Himself to them. Nevertheless, but to those who are determined to continue in their darkness and ignorance, He will be distanced and oblivious.
Then this awesome day will come, when He will reveal Himself to the entire human race, in all His glory. It will be a frightening day.
_Revelation 6:15-17 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, (16) and said to the mountains and rocks, "*Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb*! (17)
For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"_
These are words that will be spoken by the kings of the earth. They will prefer the mountains and the rocks to fall on them than face the wrath of the Lamb. How terrible it would be to face the wrath of the Lamb?
At that time there will be no more time and opportunity for anyone to repent. Repentance needs to happen now.
_Matthew 24:30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then *all the tribes of the earth will mourn*, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory._
The tribes of the earth will mourn because they will then regret that they had once the opportunity to repent and return to God but they had not heeded the call to repentance.
The following passage has often been interpreted as though all the people of the world will return to God. That is not going to happen, unfortunately.
Friends, though this is God’s desire, the reality is that it will only be the minority who will repent but the majority will reject God.
Yet, every person and every authority will acknowledge Jesus as Lord and bow before Him.
_Philippians 2:9-11 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, (10) that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, (11) and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father._
What is it that God is expecting from us, as His people, as we await the return of Jesus with power and great glory?
_Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and *let us run with endurance the race that is set before us*, (2) looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and *has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God*._
Our focus must be on Jesus. This will make us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Each of us as His people have a track on which we need to run. We have a calling and purpose, which God has assigned each of us here on earth. We must run our particular race with endurance.
*Thought to ponder*
```Are your eyes on Jesus and are you running your race with endurance?```