KEY SCRIPTURE: John 9:4 “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work”

The Lord said there is a time called the night for all persons. The night is God’s scheduled programme for everyone to end their work. It could be an old age session or a time when one has to depart this life. The import of this statement is that we do not have all the moments to ourselves. This must cause us to work with some urgency. Work with every energy in us to complete the task given to us.

Too many Christians have not come to the consciousness that we are here on assignment and that there is a period to complete this task. They go to church as a tradition or because they may be looking for solutions to some problem of some sort. Some understand we have a task to do, yet they are doing it as if they have all the time to themselves. There is no sense of urgency in their work. The Lord knew he had only three years to reach the whole region and also train his disciples to learn so much, so they would be able to take over from Him. No second was to be wasted. Every moment of His time was very precious. He said, “I must work the works of Him that sent me, while it is day, the night comes, when no man can work”.

Dear brother or sister, there is a night when you will have no more time. Some of us are procrastinating their responding to working for the Lord. Others are waiting until they get very old before they respond to God’s call to serve Him. The younger you are to start serving God, the greater you can serve, and the better your rewards will be when you meet the master. There are neighbours whom we have to reach with the gospel, yet we keep postponing. There are others in distant areas, and we do not even think about them at all. Too many Christians are not doing any work of evangelism.

Please do not deceive yourself. One day, we would stand before the judgement seat of Christ. (2nd Corinthians 5:10) All that we might spend our precious moments labouring for will mean nothing before the Lord. It is the souls we bring to the master that matter.

Please take counsel from the Lord. The night is coming when no one can work.

CONFESSION

I do not have all the moments to myself. I commit my life to the cause of Christ, leaving no moment to pass by. I would judiciously use my time to maximise all my results.

FURTHER STUDIES.

1 Corinthians 7:29-30 “But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;”

Romans 13:13-14 “Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.”

2 Corinthians 5:10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad”.

Prayer Point: O God, my father, help me to see the urgency of your task that I may stay on course.