DAILY?READINGS: 2 Kings 23; Lamentations 3; 1 Timothy 6
Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven. Acts 1:11
We might wonder why this message wasn’t, “Keep looking up because He is coming back just like He went.” But the disciples were told to go to Jerusalem and wait for the Spirit because the world needed the Gospel. The task was enormous but the time span to get it done was left undefined. So they couldn’t stand around if He was coming back at a time known only to the Father (vs. 7). If the message 2,000 years ago was, “Don’t stand around,” how much more so today! There is much still to do and the time is short. —Ken Gross
Work for the night is coming, under the sunset skies;
While their bright tints are glowing, work for daylight flies.—A. L. Coghill