Today's Daily Lesson comes from Mark chapter 13 verses 28-29, 32-37:
28 ‘From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. 29So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he* is near, at the very gates . . .
32 ‘But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33Beware, keep alert;* for you do not know when the time will come. 34It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his slaves in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch. 35Therefore, keep awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or at dawn, 36or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. 37And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.’
There is no way to hasten the stage or age of life. We wait for it and we watch, but it comes on its own time. God comes in God's own time.
Our task is not to know the times or seasons of what is next. Our task is to be faithful in the present of what is now. For as has been said, we are in the "eternal now".
The watchman keeps watch. The doorkeeper stands ready. The servants wait, and hope, and go about their daily tasks.
The times are in God's hands; but today is for our seizing.
Let us make the most of what we've been given today, even as we await the blossom of the fig in what could be tomorrow.
We never know; we just keep the lamps trimmed and burning . . .
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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