Command 41: Await My Return
Bible verses for meditation
In addition to meditation on Matthew 24:42–44, meditating on the verses below will provide you with further insight and understanding of Christ’s command: Await My Return.
I Peter 4:7
“But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.”
John 14:2
“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
James 5:7–8
“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”
I Thessalonians 5:4–6
“But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.”
I John 3:2–3
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”