“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be JUST LIKE THIS in the day the Son of Man is revealed” - Luke 17-26-30. It’s interesting how ordinary their lives sounded - much like ours… Consumed with the temporary over the eternal, as though the ordinary would never end. But it did.
In spite of the end-time troubles that have filled the earth, some things continue unchanged. People still get up and make coffee and plan their day and try to live their lives as though things are ordinary. They’re not. People quickly console themselves with two beliefs, that “things have always been bad, so we just need to live our lives in spite of it,” and secondly, that “things are going to eventually get better as these troubles are cyclical…”
The result is a world that has grown numb to the signs of our times. Jesus rebukes this deliberate ignorance… “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say it’s going to rain, and it does. And when the south wind blows, you say it’s going to be hot, and it is. Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. How is it you don’t know how to interpret this present time?” Luke 12:54-56
It’s interesting to see how people are responding to these wicked times. Many have hearts that are growing cold, just as Scripture said they would… “Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of many will grow cold” - Matthew 24:12. This is the result of hearts desensitized to evil; it no longer feels anything, and it doesn’t want to be awakened to it either. But there is another category… those that are awake, alert and watching! “So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober” - 1 Thessalonians 5:6.
These dear saints awake each ordinary day looking for signs of His imminent return. The barrage of evil is tempered with Jesus’ tender words, “Behold, I come quickly!” They believe His words and live each moment looking for Him. Their hearts haven’t grown cold because it burns with the fire of Jesus’ love for the lost. It’s not that they aren’t weary, they are, but more than that, they are filled with Hope, real, tangible Hope, the kind that keeps our ears turned toward heaven, constantly listening for His trumpet to sound.
One day soon, dear ones, your ordinary day will be anything but ordinary, and Jesus is going to come. Just watch!
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