A Voice of One

When we pray “THY KINGDOM COME” in the prayer that Jesus taught us to use, we are asking for two things: 

1. That He would lead someone to us that doesn’t know the Good News of Jesus Christ so that we can share that message with him/her and through the power of the Holy Spirit His Kingdom will be enlarged.  
2. We are also asking that Jesus would return soon and take us home to heaven.

Some of the early Christians believed that Jesus would return in their life time and that it would be soon.  Some even stopped working and were just lying around, waiting.  The opposite is happening today.  Many Christians seem to think His return will not happen soon, certainly not in their life time, or perhaps not at all!

His return will happen!  When?  That is known only by God the Father.  His return and our homecoming should not bring fear, but joy, read Matthew 24: 6-14. Jesus tells us that  we should be ready for the day of His return and “As long as it is day, we must do the work of Him who sent Me.  Night is coming when no one can work.”  John 9:4.

The Lutheran Evangelism Association with our relatively small numbers and earthly resources can hardly train enough of  God’s people to personally teach the whole world, and certainly not in short order, but remember Gideon.  Read the story in Judges 7: 1-24, see particularly verse 2.  Through our present media a few can reach the whole world!

When small numbers are involved in doing great things in His Kingdom He gets all the glory!  That’s as it should be!