Mark 13:32-37 (The Message)
32 "But the exact day and hour? No one knows that, not even heaven's angels, not even the Son. Only the Father. 33 So keep a sharp lookout, for you don't know the timetable. 34 It's like a man who takes a trip, leaving home and putting his servants in charge, each assigned a task, and commanding the gatekeeper to stand watch. 35 So, stay at your post, watching. You have no idea when the homeowner is returning, whether evening, midnight, cockcrow, or morning. 36 You don't want him showing up unannounced, with you asleep on the job. 37 I say it to you, and I'm saying it to all: Stay at your post. Keep watch.”
The word watch often goes with the word out.
“You better watch out, you better not pout...”
It carries more of a sense of a threat of something bad happening rather than a promise of something good happening.
This produces more fear, guilt, apprehension, which leads to up tight, unhappy living and believing. How contrary to the spirit of Jesus, who came that we might have life abundantly!
So...lets put in a different preposition - in.
Watch in faith, in joy, in thankfulness, in anticipation of something good going to happen. Watch in faith for the mystery of God to unfold before your very eyes.
It will...it has...it does...it is happening now!
Watch in faith for the mystery of God
to unfold before
your very eyes.
Prayer thoughts for the week:
“Lord, open my heart and mind to the joy which is coming,
watching in anticipation of the mystery of your coming to unfold
before my eyes.”
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