Come Lord Jesus.
I feel I hardly need to write this one. Any Christian reading these notes or any other Biblical text for that matter can't help but accept that we are looking forward to the rule of Christ, our Messiah.
The word 'Messiah' simply means saviour. Someone who will save us.
From what, you may ask. The answer is 'ourselves'. While there are plenty of people who do horrible things in the world today, quite simply we are our own worst enemy. We are too good at kidding ourselves that the things we do are OK, they don't harm anyone, so what's wrong with that.
Anything we do that takes us further from God is sin (that's its simple definition). All have sinned, so all will die.
Jesus is our saviour, in that only through him can we come back to God. We don't have a high priest on earth to intercede for us (read Hebrews for more on this), instead we have Jesus who sits at God's right hand and pleads for us.
While the world around us may seem harsh at times we may also want a time of peace and tranquillity, a rest from our labours. Adam's curse is still active today; we must work hard if we want to survive, but at the coming of the saviour the curse will be removed. Not that we won't have to work after Jesus' return, but the work will be easy and pleasurable, just like it was in Eden.
But before this happens we wait for Jesus. Just as those who saw his birth prophesied in the Bible hundreds of year prior, we have to wait as well. We have to pray that we will accept Jesus at his coming and not be like the Pharisees who refused him.
But unlike them, who didn't see his coming because of his humble beginnings, everyone will see the second coming of Christ and it won't be an event that can be missed. We have to make sure we're ready now and not be like the foolish virgins who had no oil in their lamps, because no one knows just when it will be.
But we pray that it will be soon.