Be ready…

 Be ready…

Life changes with one cancer diagnosis, one doctor visit, one car crash, one heart attack, one hit and run, one bullet, one visit to the ER, etc., etc….we don’t know what tomorrow holds or even today or the next moment…only God holds that information…this has become more of a reality this year for me personally…it really became that as well when my husband was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2011…our lives changed in an instant…

I don’t want this to be just hard changes….life changes at a wedding, at the birth of a child, family, new friendships, etc. as well…

 We still need to be ready…

I have been pondering this concept for a time…anticipation of Christ’s return…heaven, changes in the world, what comes next…we love our daily lives, day to day…do we have a heart for His return or our home going?  Am I ready?

One of my favorite verses, 1 Corinthians 2:9…says, God has prepared something we can’t imagine…and then continues…it was my salvation assurance verse years ago…but, it talks to so much more over the years…He has prepared so, so very much….

“ But, as it is written,“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,nor the heart of man imagined,what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. 

For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 

For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.”

1 Corinthians 2:9-13

Thank YOU….

Our pastor spoke of this on Sunday …so good…confirming…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0oUzOhP3M4

 So be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time.

Mark.13.23

 And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 

The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. 

So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 

Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.

Rom.13.11-14

 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.

Eph.6.18

 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.

1Pet.1.13

 The end of all things is near. 

Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. Be sober-minded; be watchful. 

Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

1Pet.4.7,1Pet.5.8

 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.

Rev.3.3

Yet not I but through Christ in me…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PAxx84XnKg