If I Believed Like That by David Jeremiah

Monday, January 1 If I Believed Like That    But the end of all things is at hand. 1 Peter 4:7    When D. L. Moody preached in Brooklyn in 1875, thousands were converted. Pastor Henry Ward Beecher struggled to understand this phenomenon until he met Moody personally. “I saw the secret of his working and plans,” wrote Beecher. “He is a believer in the second advent of Christ, and in our own time…. He thinks that Christ may come even to-morrow.”

Recommended Reading: 1 Peter 4:7-11

Beecher added, “I should be a burning fire all the time if I believed like that.” Peter expected Christ to soon come again too, writing, “The end of all things is at hand…. As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies.” Time is short, and this may be the year when Christ returns. Prioritize your life with the Second Coming in view. Let’s speak and serve as those who are longing for our Lord’s swift appearing. Let’s be on fire all the time. He thinks (the world is) a wreck bound to sink—and the only thing that is worth doing is to get as many of the crew off as you can. Henry Ward Beecher, about Moody