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The little redhead sang the song so joyfully, "It's a hard knock life".  Once a day don't you want to throw the towel in? It's easier than puttin' up a fight. No one's there when your dreams at night get creepy! No one cares if you grow... or if you shrink! No one cares when your eyes get wet an' weepy! From all the cryin' you would think this place's a sink! Ohhhh!!!!!! Empty belly life! Rotten smelly life! Full of sorrow life! No tomorrow life! Oh, but There's hope for the hard-knock life!!

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We tend to think about prayer as a wish-list. When I was a boy, I would search through the toy catalog that came in the mail, circle all the toys I wanted, and then make sure that the catalog found its way to my mom and dad. We treat prayer similarly. But real prayer doesn’t begin with me or my need; it doesn’t begin with my great need nor end with that need. Prayer begins and ends in the heart of God.

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Jesus commands us to pray. Although He already knows what you have need of, He stills requires His children to come to Him in prayer. That should tell us that prayer is not merely a vehicle for getting what I want. Prayer is of God, and if I want to know Him, then I must spend time in prayer.

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Alvin Reid once said, “Prayer is intimacy with God that leads to the fulfillment of His purposes.” He is right. Prayer is not a shortcut to getting what I want from God. Prayer allows me to get to know God on a deeper level and allows God to work out His purposes in me and then through me.

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Jesus told His disciples, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” Ask. Seek. Knock. Those words can be an acronym, A-S-K, ask. Just before Jesus goes to the Garden of Gethsemane, He takes time to teach His disciples one more time to ask. And if they will ask, they will receive.

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Mysteries are scary when you don’t know the outcome. But when you know when the story has a happy ending, the frightening points along the way lose a little bit of their punch. For many people, studying the Rapture of the Church is scary, but God reveals to us what we need to know that it might be encouraging instead.

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One of the most beautiful thoughts in the New Testament is that one day Jesus will return for His bride, the church. He told us that He had gone into heaven to prepare a place for us, like a groom will prepare living conditions for his bride. And when He is ready, He will come get us. Thankfully, the Bible shares some of the details of what that will be like.

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The return of Jesus, the rapture of the church, is imminent. That simply means that He could return to retrieve His bride at any moment. There is no prophecy awaiting to be fulfilled; there are no reasons for His delay outside of His own will and timing. He may have been gone for two thousand years, but when He comes, it’ll have just been “a little while,” especially in the context of eternity.

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None of us enjoy waiting. Waiting on a doctor, waiting at a traffic light, waiting until Christmas. But learning to wait is a part of life. And what we gain in the waiting can be invaluable. God teaches us life-long lessons in the waiting. Today we wait for Jesus’ return. And He prepares us everyday for His coming.