Running in a time of acceleration

Of late, there seems to be an acceleration of events around us. A sense of the need to fasten one's seatbelt, because of the time compression all about us. God is fast-forwarding events, and also His saints, because time is short.

I am reminded of a couple of verses where God says RUN! (not meandering about, or taking a leisurely stroll, but RUN!)

In Habbakuk 2:2-3, for example, He says, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."

Or Jeremiah 12:5, which is all about running with horses. Horses! "If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?

Interestingly, Elijah in 1 Kings actually outran King Ahab in his chariot... which must surely count as a miracle. It is a lesson in the supernatural strength and enablement that only the Holy Spirit can give.

Then there is what I call Holy Spirit transportation, which is even faster, as illustrated in Philip's encounter with the Ethopian eunuch in Acts. After Philip explained the gospel to him, and baptised him in a pool of water, "the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azotus."

The closer we get to the end of the age and the imminent return of Jesus, the shorter time becomes. The time is coming when seed time and harvest will be the same time. The speed at which souls are swept into the kingdom will take place at an unprecedented pace!

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, "when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman, and the planter by the one treading grapes." (Amos 9:13)

God says in 2 Tim 4:2 "Be ready in season and out of season." If we are called upon to be ready even out of season, then how more so in this season of acceleration. Lord, make us ready to partner you for this great work of yours that is coming upon us! In Jesus' name, Amen.