Being Prepared

Happy New Year! It's going, it’s going, too late--it’s gone. At that same instantaneous speed as 2012 becomes 2013 lives change. We can go from better to worse, from young to old, or from lost to saved. While we joked and laughed at the Mayan calendar ending in a non-eventful sort of way, most of the world does the same things laughing at the promised second coming of Messiah. We were told ahead of time in the last days there would be scoffers; and there are and they are in prominent position sometimes. And even though our calendar itself is based on Christ interrupting and changing the course of history (by divine promise course): our world’s leaders and educators would just as soon rewrite history. But, since it is His-story and not ours, there is no chance of that happening.

The world will someday loose its godly influence, the Church. We will be changed in the twinkling of an eye. Faster than 2012 becomes 2013 we could be out of here. I love that! But there’s something I want to share that I wrote in my bible a while back. “Don’t be content just to go to heaven.” Since we were prepare to do good works, do them. Since we were commissioned to share Christ’s Gospel and make disciples, make some. I want to go home and heaven's that home, but I don’t want to go alone and I hope you don’t want to either.

I read today in Matthew 10 as Jesus sent out His disciples throughout Israel. He sent them out in power preaching that the kingdom of heaven was at hand or near. As Christ dwells in our hearts as believers, through the Holy Spirit, the kingdom of heaven is ready to touch and change anyone who would be believe. So, be ready to give an account for why you believe in Jesus. Be prepared, because we never know when we’ll be called on by the Holy Spirit to share our Jesus with someone else. Remember, things change and faster than we can imagine sometimes. And our short vapor of a life can impact someone’s eternity.

“…worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way.”

1 Peter 3:15b-16a