What wonderful timing!

How often are we grateful for the timing of our lives?  Be grateful you exist today!  It is a blessing to be alive after Christ.  The Bible says being alive today is much better than being before Christ because now the mystery of Christ has been revealed.  Peter says in 1 Peter 1 the prophets of old yearned to see the coming of the Christ for they knew of his sufferings and the glory he would usher in.  He says,

10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 12 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.  1 Peter 1:10-12

Peter says the prophets sought after the timing and the person of Christ because the Spirit of Christ was in them and preached to them about his coming.  In Matthew 13, Jesus tells his disciples,

16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. 17 For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.  Matthew 13:16-17

Astonishingly there was one who did see the Christ.  In John 8 Jesus describes how Abraham longed to see the Christ and actually did (to the Jews' disbelief)!

56 “Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” 57 So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” 58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”  John 8:56-58

Jesus may have been referring to meeting Abraham in Genesis 18, an amazing story in and of itself.

Whatever else is going on in your life, be glad and thank God that Christ is known to you.  There were many who came before you who longed to know Him and yearned to see His coming but weren't able to.  Now we, along with them, can yearn to see His second coming!

20 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!  Revelation 22:20