Time is Running Out

John 8:12-59 is so full of information it would take a large manuscript to fully do it justice. In these passages Jesus reveals many things about Himself. He calls Himself the Light of the World though not of this world; that He did nothing except what the Father instructed Him to do; that His father is God and their father (referring to the crowd) is the devil. He tells them that the truth would set them free, that who the Son sets free is free indeed, and that no one who believes on Him would die. He calls Himself I AM, the very name God the Father called Himself at the burning bush with Moses. To the crowd these were a mouthful of blasphemes and makes them so angry they actually try to stone Him.

What’s also abundantly clear in these passages is Jesus’ foreknowledge of His death. He knew His time was nearly up and He was desperate to make the people understand, to have them come into the Light, to be set free, to know the Truth and thus escape eternal damnation. He’s still trying to do that today, to make people understand, to bring them out of darkness into His marvelous light. But the tables are reversed. It’s our time that is nearly up. We don’t know from one minute to the next when that time will come, but we know that our life is but a vapor that quickly passes. Anyone over fifty understands this all too well.

The best thing we can do with what’s left of our time is to examine these claims of Jesus. To prayerfully study them and ask God to give us revelation knowledge so we can take them to heart. Time is running out for all of us. We need to settle these issues before it’s too late.

Until next time,

Sylvia