ARE YOU READY?
Memorise;
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1st
Thessalonians 4:17
Read:
1st Thessalonians 4:13-18, Bible in one year: 2nd Samuel
14-15, Mark 13:24-14:9
The admonition of Apostle Paul in
today’s Bible reading is addressed to those he referred to as “brethren”. His
first admonition is against ignorance (1st Thessalonians 4:13).
Ignorance is the first weapon the devil uses to make Christians not ready for
the rapture! Going by the words of Paul’s warning, other people on earth can
afford to be ignorant, but we who are joint-heirs with Jesus Christ cannot
afford to be. One reason why many Christians are not watchful anymore is the
supposed delay in the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. They feel He may
not come as expected; therefore, they have thrown godliness with contentment to
the wind. Such Christians display their ignorance by not recognising the fact
that although the great trump of God has not yet been sounded by the archangel,
there is the individual trumpet, which the angel of death sounds when your time
on earth is up.
In 2nd Peter 3:1-11, Apostle
Peter also attacked the spirit of Ignorance in the brethren. Specifically in 2nd
Peter 3:8-9 he said:
“But,
beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack
concerning his promises, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to
us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance.”
Are you a beloved of the Lord? Then, you
cannot afford to be ignorant of the fact that the two thousand and fifteen
years following the Lord’s first advent is just two days and a few seconds by
the Lord’s timing. One of my sons wrote an article at the end of the second
millennium which he titled “Two Days Are Gone” – pointing to the truth in
Peter’s epistle above. We must do everything within the available grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship (the helpful partnership)
of the Holy Spirit to be ready for the rapture. To remain rapturable, you need
to take very seriously the words of Romans 12:1-2:
“I
beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service. And be not confronted to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove that is that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God.”
Action
Point
Carry
out a personal assessment of your readiness for the return of our Lord.
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