Are You Ready for Eternity?

Prayer – Lord, You have warned us to “be ready” for Your return. I’m listening…and responding to Your message. Forgive me for my poor attitude and for not treating others the way I would treat You—showing love and forgiveness to them. Thank you for all that You’ve done for all of mankind—dying for us on the cross. Setting us free from the sin that Adam and Satan inflicted on us all.    

Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Matthew 24:42-44 NKJV (Underlined for emphasis.)

 

Meditate. Consider God’s timing.                                            

 

We don’t know the hour or the day. But even more interesting in this scripture passage is that… the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Another translation says…when we least expect Him. When would that be? Some people have said that Christ will come for those who believe in Him…rapturing them…on the Feast of Trumpets. But if that isn't the day that He is expected, then maybe it is some other day? What would you guess? How about Palm Sunday, Passover, Easter, the Lunar Eclipse that will occur on March 25^th or the Solar Eclipse that will happen on April 8^th? No. No guessing! We just have to patiently wait for the rapture and be ready, as Jesus warned His disciples. What does it mean to be ready? We have be spiritually ready by holding ourselves accountable to the Lord—confessing all of our sins so that we are covered with the blood of Jesus—our Lord and Savior. He is the mediator between us and the Heavenly Father, so He holds our ultimate fate—but we have the choice. That choice is to choose Jesus as our Savior and to be accountable to Him. We choose our ultimate eternal fate. Eternal—forever. That’s life. Eternal life forever with God—or eternal life without God. Everyone will live forever—even if they don’t realize it now—it will happen.

And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God's house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. Hebrews 10:21-23 NLT

Our choice here and now will determine our eternal future. What is your choice?

 

Donkeys in the Arizona desert.
Like the donkey that Jesus rode into Jerusalem.

Verse of Salvation ~ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey. Zechariah 9:9 NKJV

Joyous Palm Sunday to Everyone!  

Hosanna in the Highest!

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