Christ’s Message to the Church of the Last Days - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2024

I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
Revelation 3:20

Christ's Message to the Church of the Last Days
There passes before us a solemn picture of the last stage of the professing Church. The failure that commenced with the loss of first love to Christ, ends in such utter indifference to Christ that the Church is unmoved, even though Christ is outside the door. It is deaf to every appeal by which He would seek to win their hearts. The grace that has restored to us an open Bible, and revived the great truths concerning Christ and the Church, is so abused by the Christian profession that it ends in the great mass using the truth to exalt themselves and boast that they are rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing. As ever, the vanity of boasters blinds them to their true condition. The self-complacent mass know not that in the sight of the Lord, they are spiritually "wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked." The condition of such is nauseous to Christ and can only end in the entire rejection of the Christian profession by Christ.

Nevertheless the grace of the Lord counsels them to turn to Himself to find in Him that which will meet their desperate need, that they may obtain the true riches, their shame be met and covered, and their eyes opened to see in Christ the One who not only can meet their need, but is altogether lovely.

Then we learn that in the midst of these last dark days there will be true souls that the Lord loves. The Lord is found at the door of such, patiently knocking, as He seeks to find a place in their affections. To open the door to Him surely means that we give Him a place in our hearts, and thus get back to first love. He will enter into all our exercises and trials, and He will lead us into His heavenly things.

Hamilton Smith