Daily Inspiration Quote by Jerry B. Jenkins

Apocalyptic expectation can read like escapism, but Jenkins frames it as a productivity hack for the soul: the clock is ticking, so pay attention. The line does two things at once. It tightens time (Jesus will return soon) and widens moral vision (becoming “more sensitive to the people around me”). That pairing matters because end-times talk is often caricatured as inward-looking or world-denying. Jenkins insists the opposite: urgency should generate tenderness, not detachment.

The intent is evangelistic, but it’s also reputational. As a novelist best known for popularizing end-times storytelling, Jenkins is quietly defending the genre’s psychological effect. This isn’t just “I believe”; it’s “my belief makes me better with other people.” He translates a cosmic claim into an everyday ethic, then returns to mission: “tell people about him and all that he offers.” The subtext is a soft rebuttal to secular suspicion. If you worry that imminent prophecy breeds anxiety, political extremism, or indifference to the present, Jenkins offers a counter-narrative: expectation produces empathy and action.

Contextually, this sits inside a late-20th/early-21st-century evangelical culture where “soon” is less a date than a posture. The word carries built-in adrenaline, a motivational charge that keeps faith from becoming mere identity. It also reveals a paradox: the nearer the end, the more responsibility he claims for the now. Jenkins’ rhetoric makes urgency feel humane, turning eschatology into a call to notice your neighbor before it’s too late.