Your Life- Eternal or Temporary?

Luk 12:40  Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not. 

We are to be ready.  It doesn't matter whether we believe our Savior will return today, tomorrow, next year, or fifty years from now, He will return and we don't have the date of His return. 

Luk 21:34  And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 

Luk 21:35  For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 

Luk 21:36  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. 

We have to pay attention to ourselves, to our lives. We have to recognize whether or not we are caught up in self-pursuits as opposed to God-pursuits. Eating, drinking, worrying about this life, these are the things that WILL take our attention away from God.

The Lord will return and His return will be like a snare. A snare only works if the prey you are trying to ensnare is unaware of the trap. If the Lord's return will be like a trap, who is being trapped? We all are. Not a single person is going to know ahead of time when Christ returns. We are given signs, a lot of signs and we are told to pray and watch. We are told to be ready at all times. We need to be ready right now. You might be shaking your head and saying you don't need to be ready right now, that obviously the Savior isn't returning right now. You might be patting yourself on the back for having not been ready your entire life up to this point, but it is not something you should ever be congratulating yourself for. We need to be ready at all times and I know you know why. Because you could die at any moment. None of us is promised life. A brain aneurysm could stop your life at any single moment and that is only one instance.  Being ready always is the answer, not waiting for certain signs that you may not live to witness.

Eating, drinking, worrying about this life. Which are you guilty of… to excess. Notice I said to excess because being overcharged is to excess. We all need to eat, to drink, and concerns of living are natural. The problem comes in when we eat to excess, when we drink to excess, when we worry to excess. When our lives are so caught up in this temporary life we forget our eternal life we are not going to be ready for Christ when He returns.

None of us will know when Christ will return, but we can be ready for Him always.

Luk 21:36  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. 

A lot of really awful things are going to happen. The seven last plagues are REAL. By the time the first plague falls, all our fates will be sealed. You can't wait until the plagues start, the things you are praying to be accounted worthy to escape, because it'll be too late, much too late and there will be no more chances, not a single one. Is it any wonder we are given so much time to be ready?!  This is it, this is your life and it will be either eternal, or temporary.

God help us all!

May we be worthy to escape all that is to come, and may we stand before the Son of man, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! All through His love!