Little children, this is the last second of the last hour!
Suppose this was your last hour: what would you be doing? What a flurry of anxious preparations there would be! But let me tell you:
“Little children, it is the last hour” (1 John 2:18).
I know that it seems that this “last hour” has lasted very long, as John wrote those words two thousand years ago, but do not let that confuse you.
Of one thing we can be certain:
if it was the last hour then, it most certainly is now! If John were writing today, he probably would write, “Little children, it is the last second of the last hour.” When John wrote this verse,
he was watching God’s clock, not ours. Its hands have not stood still. How long will God’s hour last, measured by earthly time-keeping methods?
The one thing we know is that we do not know how near we are to the end:
“But of that day and hour no one knows” (Matthew 24:36), Jesus said. It is obvious, however, that we are much closer to the end every day. Paul saw it that way too:
“Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed” (Romans 13:11).
If anybody thought that they had only sixty minutes left, they would certainly not spend the time on trivialities. With the microseconds running out like fine sand in an hourglass, they would see what was really important to them.
They would not go shopping for the latest fashionable hat, or run an eye down the financial columns to see how their shares were doing.
Focusing on the end would put all of life into its proper perspective.
Taken from Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days in God’s Word by Reinhard Bonnke. Copyright © 2016 by Reinhard Bonnke. Use by permission of Whitaker House. www.whitakerhouse.com
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