When you contemplate the return of Jesus, are you excited or nervous? Eager or indifferent? Do you want Him to come right now or would you prefer He
delay a few days, months or years?
The New Testament writers left no question as to their anticipatory view of His return. When Jesus said, “Surely I am coming quickly,” John’s reply was, “Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!” (Rev. 22:20). Peter said that we ought to be “looking for and hastening [earnestly desiring, ASV] the coming of the day of God” (2 Pet. 3:12). Paul reminds us, “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phil. 3:20).
As the apostles contemplated the Lord’s return, their attitude was, “Yes! Come now! Please, oh, please! I want to go home!” As you envisage that time when “the trumpet will sound” (1 Cor. 15:52) and “the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven” (2 Thess. 1:7), do you long for that day and pray, as John did, for it to come? Are you ready to go home? — DS