Be Ready

Luk 12:39  And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Luk 12:40  Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Be ready.

We have to be ready.

We have to WATCH.

Every single person that has ever had anything stolen from them can understand this parable. If you'd KNOWN when someone was going to steal from you, you would have been on GUARD, right?

We KNOW our Savior is going to return, this is a fact!  We don't know when He's going to come but we know He will and we have to be ready for Him when He returns.

He's going to return when we THINK NOT.

We may be watching. We may discern the signs of the time, but we don't KNOW exactly when our Savior will return.

Do you lock your doors? Do you lock your windows? Do you take any sort of precautions to protect yourself and your family? You do this because you don't want to invite those who would steal from you, or hurt you, into your house.  You want to be able to say you did all you could to keep safe.

Jesus wants us to be ready for Him.

We must surrender to Him, and it's very hard to do- surrender our wills. Only by His grace and mercy, only through the Holy Spirit is it even possible.

We must BELIEVE.

Lord, help our unbelief, we believe!

All in Your blessed name!

Amen.