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The Grand Finale
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by Gina Hooker
his past July 4th, I went to a firework show
Our Father in Heaven has promised that this world
in my hometown. One beautiful display of
of decay and the battles we fight in our flesh will one
color after another lit up the night sky. Then
day come to an end. I can assure you He will not leave
there was silence and darkness which seemed to last
us expecting more, just as the person who funded
forever. I heard someone say, “You mean that’s it…
the grand firework extravaganza did indeed provide
no grand finale?” I said to that person, “There is
a grand finale. But the real grand finale comes when
always a grand finale…just wait for it, it will come.”
Christ appears in the clouds. Though that day seems to
I knew the organization that had provided this grand
tarry, “just wait for it…it will come.”
illumination for our pleasure would not leave us expecting more! Then I had to ask myself, “Am I looking to the skies for the grandest finale of all time or am I living as though that day will never come?” Sadly, many Christians have a lack of excitement for the coming of the Lord and have become complacent. Just as the parable how to boil a frog describes, “You cannot place a frog in a pan of boiling water, it will jump out, but you can place a frog in a pan of cool water, and little by little increase the temperature. The frog then becomes relaxed and complacent in the
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days,
warm steam bath. Once the water begins to boil and
the sun will be darkened and the moon will not
the frog realizes he’s in danger it is too late!”
give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the
We are instructed in the manner in which we
powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign
ought to live in 1 Thessalonians 5:5-8. The return of
of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all
Christ is near and may we all become more vigilant
the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see
as The Day approaches. May we live with a renewed
the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with
sense of urgency in our relationships with both God
power and great glory” (Matthew 24:29-30).
so that the day of the Lord will not come upon them as a thief in the night.
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About The Author
and man. May we be a witness to those who are lost, Gina Hooker RN, Clinical Discipler. President and founder of Eternal Life Support Group.