Make sure you focus on the right thing

I read the Charles Spurgeon devotional this morning and a sentence in particular got my attention. Here is the devotional and then we can look at the interesting sentence below.

One King, One Lord
And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one. (Zechariah 14:9)

"Blessed prospect! This is no dream of an enthusiast but the declaration of the infallible Word. Jehovah shall be known among all people, and His gracious sway shall be acknowledged by every tribe of man. Today, it is far from being so. Where do any bow before the great King? How much there is of rebellion! What lords many and gods many there are on the earth! Even among professed Christians what diversities of ideas there are about Him and His gospel! One day there shall be one King, one Jehovah, and one name for the living God. O Lord, hasten it! We daily cry, "Thy kingdom come." We will not discuss the question as to when this shall be lest we lose the comfort of the certainty that it shall be. So surely as the Holy Ghost spake by His prophets, so surely shall the whole earth be filled with the glory of the Lord. Jesus did not die in vain. The Spirit of God worketh not in vain. The Father's eternal purposes shall not be frustrated, Here, where Satan triumphed, Jesus shall be crowned, and the Lord God Omnipotent shall reign. Let us go our way to our daily work and warfare made strong in faith."

I'm really looking forward to the time after we are raptured. We will be with brethren who in one heart and of one mind accept and worship the One true God, Jesus. In the Millennium Kingdom to come after the Tribulation, we will still be united in one mind and one heart although there will be mortal believers who enter the kingdom straight from the Tribulation who will have children, and some of those children will not believe in Jesus. We know this from the verses that state although satan is locked up for the thousand years, when he is let loose for a little time there will be one final rebellion before he is cast alive into the Lake of Fire. (Rev 20:8-9). After the 1000 year reign of Christ on earth concludes, eternity begins. The bible is silent on this next epoch but we do know that we will be with Jesus forever. (John 14:3) I am personally thrilled to think of the time, soon to be upon us, when the Lord is recognized by all as the Holy God that He is.

In the devotional, Mr Spurgeon made a comment: "We will not discuss the question as to when this shall be lest we lose the comfort of the certainty that it shall be." Those few words have powerful wisdom in them. Think of it this way: We should focus on the certainty of His coming, and we should not focus on the uncertainty of the date of His arrival. Why focus on uncertainty over certainty? Doing that befuddles. Doing that confounds. Doing that steals joy. Joy is lost especially when one date after another comes and goes with nary a twinkling of His Glorious Personage seen. Pretty soon people allow satan to slyly enter in to their mind an attitude of defeatism.

But if we focus on the certainty of His promise, rather than the uncertainty of the date of His coming, we will never be disappointed. We will never have even a moment's defeatist attitude. We will be all joy.
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