Dear Jesus, I thank You that I am living in this exciting time preceding Your Second Coming. Help me to see things through Your eyes and to understand Your plan—for the world in general and me in particular—as it unfolds. Help me to stay close to You and Your Word so that I will be, as You said of Your first disciples, in the world but not of the world (John 17:14–15). And thank You for Your tender loving care, ever-present, unfailing, and eternal. Amen.