Maranatha!

Maranatha is an Aramaic word that means, "The Lord is coming" or "Come, O Lord." According to my research, it was a popular greeting among the early Church during the time of intense persecution they endured under Roman rule. It reminded them that the suffering they experienced for the sake of His name would one day end with His appearing.

⁶ Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true.” And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly take place.
⁷ “Behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
⁸ Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.
⁹ Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.” ¹⁰ And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. ¹¹ He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”   
¹² “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
¹⁴ Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. ¹⁵ But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
¹⁶ “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
¹⁷ And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

(Revelation 22:6-17, New King James Version)

Every servant of God who is in touch with Him through prayer and His word knows that we are in the days before the return of the King. The daily catastrophic and lamentable news headlines of mankind's rebellion, arrogance and railing against God, also brings me the joy of knowing that His coming is nearer than when we first believed. I want Him to come. I want Him to come quickly.

But there is a warning here. In every place where the return of the Lord is discussed in Scripture, God also places a warning that we be diligent to make ourselves ready. It is not those who want Him to return who are necessarily ready. Those who are ready are those whose garments are without spot and wrinkle, blemish or any such thing. Those who are ready are those who are walking in the righteousness of Christ and in the grace which teaches them to deny ungodliness. They are walking with God in daily obedience.

¹⁰But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

 ¹¹Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, ¹² waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! ¹³But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. ¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. ¹⁵And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, ¹⁶as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. ¹⁷You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. ¹⁸But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
(2 Peter 3: 10-18, ESV)

Some people have a false peace concerning His coming. They seem to believe that their profession of faith counts on that Day without regard to their many works which are clearly marked by their unbelief and their disobedience. Being able to cry, "Lord, Lord" does not matter on that Day. True faith is evidenced by a changed life, an obedient life, a holy life which produces works of the same kind.

Even so, Maranatha! Lord Jesus, Come!