James A. Harding and David Lipscomb described a way of life in which we should live in the “Shadow of the Second Coming.” Living this way does call us to live in a sense of urgency.

Jesus’ disciples knew for a fact that Jesus was coming back again SOON! As in tomorrow. They were confident of this. We have simply lost that call. We know all too well that Jesus isn’t really going to come again for a long time. We are going to live till we’re in our 70s or 80s, and our purpose for living is to set up a comfortable life for the future generations to live in.

This call to live as if Jesus is coming back tomorrow is abrasive! It’s uncomfortable! And if we truly believe this message that Jesus is Returning to restore the world, then it will dramatically affect how we live. When we stop and look through this lens, we know longer see a need for governments, for political systems of any kind, to hate, for racism, to judge, to segregate. We are unified in the fact that we live for the moment, because the moment is all that we’re guaranteed.

“Live as if the future is already present.”