NT in a year: Mathew 16

3 And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to discern the [c]appearance of the sky, but are you unable to discern the signs of the times?

There is a storm coming. The end is near. It may be tomorrow, or it may be a thousand lifetimes away. Either way, death comes for us all, let us not find ourselves asleep, having missed the coming of our only hope for salvation: Jesus Christ.

Here, we see that the Pharisees, who could predict the weather looking at the ski, failed to recognize the spiritual weather of their time: the signs and miracles Christ performed which proved his authority as God. They were asleep just as the thunder crashed before their eyes. We are fooling ourselves if we think this cannot happen to us now.

Daily Application:

Today, we have a twofold application. Let our first wake up ourselves! Christ has come. The storm was here and gone. Let us not recognize it. Let us repent, believe, and grow in our knowledge of him and his word--which is pleasing to God (Colossians 1).

Secondly, let us share this hope with others. We are commanded to. More than that, God uses his people to share his gospel. How can we, who have been shown such grace and have had our eyes peeled open to the truth, not go and share it? The sad truth is, more easily than we would like to admit. When was the last time you shared your faith?

S.D.G.

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