Lord, please don’t come just yet.
Sometimes I wonder if I am the only person alive who does not daily cry out for the Lord to come.
But I don’t.
I just can’t.
I cry out for those in my family, those friends who I have left behind so as to not be drawn back to my worldly lifestyle and chronic sinful lusts. They don’t know Jesus. They don’t understand what is going to happen upon His return.
Jesus wept.
On that day of glorious triumphal entry into that little town. People rejoice and cried out ““Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” (Luke 19:38).
The following Sunday they cried out, demanding His execution.
This Sunday, people across the world will also cry out, ““Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” in their annual trek to a church near them. Dressed in their “holy attire,” (Ps. 96:9a) just as the Bible commands.
The next Sunday…? They will cry out, demanding the execution of the church, the God of the Bible to be silenced, and His commands be removed.
The other half of the above mentioned verse says, “Tremble before Him, all the earth” (96:9b).
But, this weekend… what will the church do?
I know what we will not do.
We will not tell them of the horror they will face for eternity if they do not repent…
Not this weekend… It’s all about jelly beans and eggs. Family and friends.
Not reality.
Not the cross.
New little pink dresses with white patent leather shoes. Pretty little bows in the primped curls in their hair and tiny white gloves. Little boys in their newly purchased and pressed suits.
Never to be worn again…
Well maybe at a wedding… or a funeral.
Because just like the palm leaves laid out before Jesus. The praise and Hallelujah’s, they were seasonal…
Ceremonial…
Superficial.
People will leave their Sunday services and go home to hunt for eggs, delivered by a bunny.
Life will go on and the anxieties and pleasures of the world will come upon them..
Their plans will fail, they will not satisfy – and they will demand “Crucify Him!”
“When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the LORD” (Pr. 19:3).
They will bury Him and He will give them over to “the lusts of their hearts…” (Rom. 2:24).
Jesus wept.
“And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation” (Luke 19:41-44).
I know that although it is His plan that will prevail, there are those who will not surrender. They will lay out the palm leaves this week, they will sing and praise His holy name – but they will do it with empty hearts.
And I will weep for them.
Some churches will even capitalize on this destruction of mankind. Just as they did back then, defiling the holy sanctuary of Christ with bouncy houses, photo booths, and kids-carnivals – complete with the Bunny and eggs.
And I will weep for them.
No, I am not praying for Christ’s final return. There’s too many who simply are not ready! So many who have not heard the Truth! It’s too soon!
I am praying that we – the church of God – weep and mourn over these who decide to grace us with their presence this weekend.
I am praying for hearts of Christians to be broken beyond repair until they learn to speak the Gospel of Jesus Christ rather than fulfill the wants of “Itching ears.”
Just shortly after the palm leaves and praise… Jesus dismounted the little colt and then, he sat down on the steps of the Temple, tied together a cat of nine-tails and went inside the church… swinging and destroying.
“And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, saying to them, ‘It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers” (Luke 19:45-46).
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Holly T. Ashley 
Amen! Well said.
I often do the same, “Not yet Lord, please, give us just a little more time.” There is so much work to be done, people to be saved! Sometimes I feel a bit like a hostess, desperate to tidy the place up a bit before royalty arrives. We have a feast to prepare, He can’t come quite yet…
On the bright side, His timing is always perfect and He already knows what a mess the house is, so all will be well when He does come. 🙂
Thank you. The shame is when those entrusted with “the house” have to clear it out and clean it up and hope they’ve left no evidence behind… like children who’s parents went away for the weekend and they threw a house party and said it was a Bible study.
It’s a real paradox, isn’t it? What we have in store is so much better than what we have now. As I age, I understand that more and more. New, not stove up body and all of that, glory forever at the feet of our Lord.Amen, right?
But…all the lost ones burden me. I want them with me. Excellent stuff, here Holly, for real.
Thank you Wally! We must preach the Word!
Agreed totally Holly!
Reblogged this on Truth in Palmyra and commented:
Of course, all believers look forward to the glorious return of our Lord!…but still, there is so much work yet to be done.
Blessings and enjoy!
I feel like this a lot too. Thanks for writing!
I have the same thoughts too.
This is so real, brother! I am amaze on how other people can easily accept Christ when we preach to them and yet some of our family, friend, and relatives would not even want to hear anything about God. He is to be praised for He is long-suffering and patient toward us, not wanting that any will be lost, but that all may be saved. Amen!