What does it mean for me to be watching? Obviously it means paying attention to spiritual things, finding out and inquiring and learning about the things of God. If I am watching I begin to see the events which will lead up to the return of the Lord, because everything points to this. I find out whatever I can: from the Bible, from God's book, but even from the world around me. If I am watching, I say to myself, ‘This universe is designed. I am not going to believe these people who say it all came about by pure chance, by a freak accident. There is order; there is a great system; there is all the evidence of intricate design.’ There are many eminent scientists who are saying this today. There are many who are saying the Darwinian theory of evolution is just not tenable. Some of them are secularists; they haven't yet come to believe in God, a personal designer, but it is very interesting how many scientists are saying, ‘It certainly looks as though it was designed.’ There are scientists today in very eminent places who say, ‘I believe in evolution, but not this Darwinian theory of evolution. I cannot possibly believe in that, because science has moved on, and now we can look at the intricacies of the biological and chemical world, and it is so intricate and it becomes utterly implausible that the Darwinian model is correct. If you are too busy serving all other things you will not think about life or why you are here and what this universe is about. As soon as you begin to think about these things, you realize this is a created world there is a designer.
You know he must be a holy God. You certainly couldn't accept a God who was like human beings, full of wickedness and sin and unreliability. Your very instincts tell you that the one who created all things must be a holy God perfect and true. You begin to read the Bible and you learn about the fall of the human race. Because you are watching and inquiring, you may come to be counted among those who are blessed by the Lord. You begin to realize how much we need a Saviour, how much we need a way of salvation whereby God will forgive us and help us. You are like the servant on the lookout, and you realize atheism has got no answer. Atheists can't regulate their own lives, let alone improve society. You learn about the incarnation of Christ and how God came himself into this world in the person of his Son. He came to be a Saviour, to bear the punishment of all those who come to him. He came to be punished for them, so that he could purchase their salvation and forgive them freely. You are watching, and listening and you hear about how Christ eventually was nailed to Calvary's cross, and how he hung there for six hours and God poured upon him all that eternal weight of punishment, so that if I believe in him I can be forgiven.
We are in this period of time where we are waiting for the bridegroom to return, as it were, and we see this poor world going on and all the equality and all the trouble. Then too we see people who have sought Jesus Christ and they have come to him, and in the secrecy of their hearts they have repented of their sin and asked him to save them and to make himself known to them, and he has done so.