“Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the Master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly He find you sleeping” (Mark 13:35-3635Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. (Mark 13:35‑36)). What hour of the night is it now? Jesus, the Light of the world, left this earth about two thousand years ago, and the evening—even the midnight—is long gone. Has not the cockcrowing also passed away, and has not the watcher’s call awakened some, who now have fallen asleep again? Surely, fellow-Christian, it is the morning now—the Morning Star has arisen; the streaks of dawn are to be seen! Jesus is near; His coming is at hand.
Awake and watch—arouse and wait—give the soul no more to sleep: be ready! Thousands will be asleep when He comes—thousands now are indifferent to the reality of His coming; many, who say they believe He is coming, only speak as men that dream.
Will He find you awake and watching, or sleeping, when He comes? His are words of warning: “Lest coming suddenly”—for few will be expecting Him when He comes, few will be watching for Him—“Lest coming suddenly He find you sleeping.” Make it the great point in your life that Jesus, who loves you, who died for you, will find, at least in you, one true to Himself and watching for Him.