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The Promise of His Coming
I guess I don’t get it. Let’s say that you have a kid. One day, you find this child eating a candy bar. The child has no money, didn’t go to the store,
and you know you didn’t give this child a candy bar. So, you ask the child, “Where did that candy come from?” The child replies, “It just appeared!” You ask the child what he means. The child says, “Well, I was just sitting here and poof, this candy just appeared.” Everything in your life and experience tells you this is not true. Things, no matter how simple, just
don’t appear.
Yet, if we are to except what evolutionists say, all that you see that makes up our universe either just appeared, or has always existed. Furthermore, out of a mud puddle sprang life. We are for the most part just made up of dirt. And this dirt we are made of became so intelligent it can fly to the moon. We actually let our school teachers teach our kids this baloney.
Let me share some things we ought to be teaching our children. If things just don’t appear, someone had to make them. Take a car for example. We can look at the process in which each part is made and then assembled into a car. We would consider a person or people that design cars to be smart. Yet, in all of the things that man has made, not one of them comes close to a person. We are infinitely more complex than any invention of man. Thus, what should we call the one who designed and made us? Even more marvelous is the fact that he brought into existence the very material that we are made of!
Yahweh, God Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. God is so powerful, that he can say things hundreds of years in advance and they come into being as though he was reading a book he wrote. Well, we can. The book is the Bible and it contains a promise fulfilled. The coming of Jesus was promised more than 500 years before his birth. Many details of the life of Jesus are foretold well in advance of their happening. Not just generalizations, but specifics like where he would be born, how he would die, where he would be buried, and even the price of his betrayal.
God says that Jesus will come and he comes. This tells me two things: God means what he says and God is faithful to keep the promises he makes. This gives me peace. Yet many people will go out and spend thousands of dollars trying to find out their future. There is little peace in this world. That corresponds to the waning faith in God in this world. Want to know your future? The Bible says that you have a future with either consequences or rewards. You will suffer consequences if you don’t have faith in God, you will be rewarded for believing in what he says. The rewards are beyond your imagination. And just as God made the promise of Jesus’ coming, his promise of those rewards are just as true.
Oh, did I mention that God promised that Jesus will return?
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