I’m thinking it’s true that everyone lives life within some context. There is a big picture view held by every person which acts as a filter when working through and processing the details of life. Even if it’s a belief of unbelief . . . . that there is no big picture . . . even that view becomes, in itself, an overarching framework for concluding that whatever happens occurs for no reason or purpose other than “stuff happens.” So, what causes me to wax philosophical (sorta’) this morning? It is the consideration of the context of “The Comer” . . .

“For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For, ‘Yet a little while, and the Coming One will come and will not delay; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.’ But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.” (Hebrews 10:36-39 ESV)

The writer to the Hebrews is contending for their faith. It would seem that some who had embraced Jesus as Messiah were wavering . . . the price they were having to pay was causing second thoughts to emerge. And so the author of this letter has launched into a masterful treatise of the superiority of Christ over all things which formed the foundation of the Jewish faith. Christ is a better way of communicating to man by God . . . He is better than the angels . . . better than Moses . . . a better high priest . . . a better covenant . . . a better sacrifice . . . a better access for God’s people into the very presence of God.

Therefore, says the writer, given that we have confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus and given we have a great Priest over the house of God . . . let us draw near . . . let us hold fast . . . let us stir one another up . . . “and all the more as you see the Day drawing near” (10:16-25). There it is! There’s the big picture . . . the context . . . the eternal filter for working through the day to day details . . . “you see the Day drawing near.” And again, in verse 37, “Yet a little while, and the Coming One will come and will not delay.”

The Comer will come. That’s the context . . . that’s the big picture . . . that’s the filter through which I try and do life.

Jesus is coming soon. In a little while the things of earth will give way to the glories of the Kingdom of Heaven. That’s the end game . . . whether it happens in my lifetime or not, doesn’t really matter. Regardless, I can live life in the context of that victorious reality. Whether I am caught up in the clouds at His return . . . or accompany Him in the clouds to call home those who follow after me . . . I “will always be with the Lord” (1Thess. 4:15-18). The Comer will come . . . and that has away of putting everything else in perspective.

Jesus is coming soon. The King who I now know through His blessed Spirit residing within me, will one day be my “face to face” Sovereign . . . beheld in all His glory . . . exalted before God’s eternal throne in heaven. And that future assurance has a way of helping with my present realities. Confused? . . . Weary? . . . Done? The Comer will come . . . don’t shrink back . . . lean into life’s circumstance knowing that He has promised that His grace is sufficient and His power is made perfect in weakness (2Cor. 12:9) . . . knowing that He has promised we can do all things by His strength (Php. 4:13) . . . knowing that He will meet the need for the day from the riches in glory (Php. 4:19) . . . knowing that He has said He is preparing a place for us and will come and take us to be with Himself (John 14:1-3) . . . knowing that “He who promised is faithful” (Heb. 10:23).

So, says the writer to the Hebrews, draw near . . . hold fast . . . encourage one another . . . endure . . . keep on keepin’ on . . . do the will of God . . . receive His promise. The righteous shall live by faith . . . knowing . . . believing . . . resting . . . in the reality that the Comer will come.

How’s that for a big picture view? Even so, come Lord Jesus!