Are you Ready?


A call to Christian Alertness

God is speaking to us. There is a day we are to anticipate. Stealthily and suddenly it will be upon us. While here on earth there are the dangers we are to avoid: the indulgences, stimulations, and consuming occupations of life. There are duties we are to assume that please the Savior. Are you ready? That day is coming - of that there is no doubt. (Jesus predicts the day of His coming in Luke 21:20-36.)

Duties we are to assume:

  1. Avoid the indulgences of life. Consider that in an average lifetime of 70 years, a person spends six years eating. Measure that against the time spent reading the Word of God. Don't get caught up in the spirit of this age.

  2. Avoid the stimulations of life. We have become "drunk" on drugs, sex, sports to excess, alcohol, or some other habit. Make Christ your stimulation.

  3. Avoid the occupations of life. Inherent within the human personality is a God-given creativity, but carried to excess we become workaholics and subject to occupational neuroses and burnout. Beware of the barrenness of a busy life.

  4. Watchfulness. Be alert and awake to His coming. Jesus could come today

  5. Expectancy. Every Christian should be on the tiptoe of expectancy, as if the Lord Jesus were coming today. We are going to be judged on whether or not we have "loved His appearing," and have awaited His return with expectancy.

  6. Transparency. Transparency means walking in the light of openness to the Lord and obedience to the Word day by day, regardless of what the world might think.

  7. Activity. Watching is not loafing; watching is serving. Activity actually hastens the Day of God by being busy in His service. It is not simply work for the Lord, but the work of the Lord.

  8. Prayerfulness, consisting of:

    Continuous prayer. We owe it to God to pray, we owe it to ourselves, to our church, and to a dying world. Don't relax. Make prayer your priority.

    Victorious prayer. Unless we know how to bend our knees before God, we will never stand upright before Him on the Coming Day. A ministry without prayer is futile and fruitless. Only victorious prayer will overcome temptation, seduction, and the allurements of the world - and one's own inertia.

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