The last word Jesus speaks in the Bible is not a commandment. It is not a warning. It is a promise delivered with the urgency of someone who means it: I am coming soon. Today’s reflection does not explain that promise. It lets the One who made it speak directly to you.
Daily Biblical Reflection
The central message of the reflection is:
Jesus’ promise “I am coming soon” is not meant to create fear or speculation, but to awaken hope, faithfulness, spiritual readiness, and a deeper personal relationship with Him.
The Reflection Emphasises
• Christ’s return is certain.
• His coming is personal.
• Believers are called to live with daily faithfulness.
• Scripture should shape everyday life, not remain merely a subject of study.
Deepest Emotional Message
You are not forgotten. Christ sees your struggles, walks with you now, and will one day return to complete His work in you and in the world.
A Letter to You from the One Who Is Coming
24 May 2026
Written by Johnbritto Kurusumuthu
Structure of the Letter
The entire reflection is written in the first-person voice of the Risen Christ, addressing the reader intimately as “My Beloved.” It unfolds through five carefully structured sections, each reflecting on a key phrase from the verse and drawing the reader into a deeper spiritual encounter.
I. “See”
An invitation to lift one’s eyes beyond immediate circumstances and recognize the deeper reality of Christ’s presence and promise.
II. “I Am Coming”
The comfort lies not merely in an event to come, but in the Person who comes — the living Christ Himself.
III. “Soon”
Not a delayed or forgotten promise, but a declaration of divine urgency flowing from the heart of Christ.
IV. “Blessed Is the One Who Keeps”
The blessing belongs not simply to those who study or understand the words, but to those who faithfully live them.
V. “Of This Book”
A reminder that Scripture is not merely text to be read, but a living letter through which Christ still speaks to His people.
Closing Reflection
The letter concludes with a gentle and deeply personal tone: Christ acknowledging unseen grief, unnoticed faithfulness, silent endurance, and unanswered prayers. It ends with the sacred hope of Maranatha — “Come, Lord Jesus.”
| “See, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”Revelation 22:7 “ഇതാ, ഞാന വേഗം വരുന്നു. ഈ പുസ്തകത്തിലെ പ്രവചനങ്ങള് കാക്കുന്നവന് ഭാഗ്യവാന്.”വെളിപാട് 22:7 |
My Beloved,
This is not a letter written by a prophet, a saint, or a scholar. This letter comes from Me — the First and the Last, the Alpha and the Omega, the One who was dead and is alive forever more. And I am writing to you, today, because I want you to know something that the world around you has forgotten, or perhaps never truly believed:
I am coming. And I am coming soon.
Not as a rumour. Not as a theological proposition debated in halls of learning. Not as a distant hope pinned to the far edges of time. I am coming as a fact — announced, declared, sealed in the last pages of My Word — and this letter is My voice reaching across eternity into the ordinary morning of your life.
I. “See” — I Want You to Look Up
Do you notice how I do not begin with a command or a warning? I begin with an invitation. See. Just that. One word. I am asking you to lift your eyes from the screens and the schedules, from the grief and the grind, from the endless noise of a world that has decided it can manage perfectly well without Me. Look up. Look again.
You have been taught to see only what is immediate — the bill that is due, the relationship that is strained, the body that is tired, the dream that has not yet arrived. And so your vision has narrowed, and your hope has shrunk to fit the smallness of what you can see.
I am asking you to practise a different kind of seeing. The kind that the saints practised. The kind that made the martyrs sing in the face of flame. Not a denial of what is hard, but a recognition of what is certain — that behind the veil of the visible, I am already on My way.
II. “I Am Coming” — The Promise Is Personal
I did not say: A new age is coming. A better world is coming. Change is coming. I said: I am coming.The coming that matters is not the arrival of a system or a solution. It is My arrival. The coming of a Person. The return of the One who loves you.
When a mother promises her child waiting at the school gate, ‘I am coming to fetch you,’ the child is not comforted by abstract ideas of transport or arrival times. The child is comforted because it is Mamawho is coming. The comfort is entirely in the person.
So I tell you today: let the comfort of My coming be personal. It is not the end of history that you are waiting for — it is the end of the distance between us. It is My face. My voice calling your name. My hand wiping every tear you thought no one saw.
III. “Soon” — I Am Not Forgetting You
I know what you have done with this word. You have grown suspicious of it. Generations have waited, and still the world turns, and still I have not visibly come, and the sceptics have seized upon this delay as evidence that I will never come at all.
But I ask you to hear soon not as a calendar entry but as a declaration of urgency from My heart. Soonmeans: this is not a forgotten promise. Soon means: the clock is running, and every day that passes is a day closer. Soon means: do not grow so settled into the world that you forget you are waiting.
My servant Peter wrote that with Me, a thousand years is as a day. I am not slow. I am patient — holding the door open as long as possible, that none should be lost. But the door will close. And on the day it closes, every soul will understand that soon was precisely the right word.
IV. “Blessed Is the One Who Keeps” — The Praise You Do Not Expect
Notice what earns the blessing. Not the one who understands the prophecy. Not the one who preachesit, or maps it into charts and sequences, or argues its interpretation with learned precision. The blessing falls on the one who keeps it.
To keep the words of this prophecy is to live as one who has received a letter and taken it seriously. It is to wake each morning with an awareness that the Sender of this letter is not distant but drawing near. It is to make choices — in your home, in your workplace, in your church, in the quiet of your conscience — that are shaped by the knowledge that you will one day stand before My face.
Blessed, then, is the worker who labours with integrity because I am coming. Blessed is the parent who shapes their home in holiness because I am coming. Blessed is the one who forgives the difficult person, who prays when prayer is hard, who holds the faith when the fire burns low — because they know I am coming.
This is the practical shape of waiting: not passivity, not panic, but purposeful faithfulness.
V. “Of This Book” — The Letter Within the Letter
I gave you a Book. Its final chapter ends with this promise — My own voice breaking through the veil one last time before the silence of the canon closes: See, I am coming soon. It is as though I could not let the last word of My written Word be anything other than the assurance of My physical return.
The Book you hold is not a relic. It is a living letter from a living Lord. And the one who keeps it — who reads it, guards it, obeys it, allows it to shape the texture of every day — is declared blessed even before I arrive.
What does your relationship with My Word look like today? Is it the first voice you hear in the morning, or a voice you squeeze in at the edges of a busy day? Is it a living conversation, or a duty discharged? I am not asking to shame you. I am asking because I love you — and a letter is only as powerful as the attention given to reading it.
A Personal Word Before I Close
I know the name of every weight you carry today. I know the unanswered prayer that is beginning to feel like a permanent silence. I know the exhaustion behind the faith you still perform. I know the private grief and the quiet fear and the small daily acts of obedience that no one but I have noticed.
I want you to know: I have seen it all. I have recorded it all. And when I come — and I will come — none of it will have been in vain.
Until that day, keep the words. Live in readiness. Let every sunrise be a reminder that you are one day closer to seeing My face.
Maranatha — Come, Lord Jesus.
With all My love and in the certainty of My return,
The One who said: I am coming soon.
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A Note from the Author
Today’s reflection is written by Johnbritto Kurusumuthu, inspired by the verse shared this morning (24 May 2026) by His Excellency, Rt. Rev. Dr Selvister Ponnumuthan, Bishop of the Diocese of Punalur — a cherished practice he has faithfully continued for over three years.
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“Soon means: do not grow so settled into the world that you forget you are waiting.” Priceless
Thank you for this thoughtful and profound insight. Your interpretation of the word “soon” beautifully highlights the call to spiritual attentiveness and faithful living. It is a meaningful reminder that believers are not merely waiting for an event, but are called to live each day with hope, readiness, and awareness of God’s eternal purpose. I sincerely appreciate your valuable contribution to the reflection.