Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
How real this verse feels to me these days. He is near. I can feel it down to my bones. It is almost time to go home. I used to have a slight tinge of fear at the prospect of leaving all that I have ever known, but there is none of that left. There is only excitement, ears waiting in great anticipation for the sound of the trumpet.
"Lord my God, your long suffering has kept us in this world for what has seemed to us like an eternity. Help me Lord, to gain just a small fraction of that patience as the Day of the Lord draws near. Keep me always in fervent prayer for those souls we are all waiting for. But even so, come quickly Lord."