Are You Ready?

“For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”—Jesus 

(Matthew 24:38-39)

In a day when people are living care free, "business as usual" lives, Jesus Christ will come with a startling unexpectedness that will take the unbelieving world by surprise.

Never before, has our world been so self absorbed, self indulgent, and completely oblivious to the spiritual reality of just where we are as a civilization—circling the drain.

I don't need to list all the serious problems in the world. Just turn on the TV news or search the Internet and it's everywhere you look, the world over.

Most people simply don't have a Heavenly perspective.

I believe there is a strong delusion on many people who profess to be "christian." A complete lack of real spiritual discernment. An utter failure to recognize where we are at prophetically, and in history, as pertains to the Kingdom of God and His coming back to earth. Many are blind to the truth.

You see it in people's political views, in how they prioritize and spend their time and money, and in how they respond—or fail to respond—to the lost and hurting people all around them. Hobbies, leisure, self interests, personal issues, marriage, family, business, wealth—all distract people from what should really be important to God's people in these perilous last days of our current world.

Did you know that all Christian believers will stand before Christ and give an account of every single thing we did in our life as a Christian?

“Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:9-10)

How can I stand before Jesus Christ, who willingly died on the Cross for my sins, and hear Him say, "You wasted much of your life on pleasing yourself, while lost and hurting people all around you were perishing eternally." 

Most of us need to get outside our 'selves' and rise 10,000 feet up and get a Heavenly perspective on the true condition of this lost and dying world. Then, get a true perspective on the condition of our own hearts. Who are we living for?  Our self? -Or for Jesus Christ and His Kingdom?

Jesus said:

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13)

Sitting on the porch this morning sipping my coffee, I realized we've lived in this house for 27 years... That's nearly half of my entire lifetime. And it hit me just how short this life really is. My 58 years have blazed by like a runaway train. This present life is not even a blink of an eye compared to eternity. 

And yet, most people are so bound up in this present world, they give little to no thought to the afterlife. I'm so convicted today, for the rest of my time here to be mindful of investing myself in what really matters in this life. None of us know when we will step into eternity. But it will probably be sooner than we think.

The hearts and eternal souls of people are what really matters in this life... the same world full of eternal souls that Jesus Christ gave His life for on the Cross, because "God so loved the world." That's why we have been saved, and called—to point people to Jesus Christ, who is the only One who can save our eternal soul.

"To whom much is given, much is required." —Jesus

Are you ready to meet Him at His coming?


—God is Love and Love Never Fails.