Will You Be Ready

As the end seems to be getting very close, are you ready to meet your maker?  God’s word says only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will go to be with Him for eternity, so if your name isn’t found there then you were not ready.  I wouldn’t say these things unless I really believed them to be true and very reliable statements.  I believe that there is, and have been, so many people deceived, thinking that their good works will get them into heaven so they keep doing things as sort of brownie points that will appease the good Lord and he will be happy to let them in when the time comes.  I don’t want you deceived, so I will give you a dose of reality; the word says emphatically, before our true conversion, which means before we have become born-again, our righteousness, or what we think is righteous, is like filthy rags.

Please read Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”

Now please read Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”  

This makes it perfectly clear that we can do nothing, as far as our own works are concerned, to obtain salvation.  It is all in the Lord’s hands; I believe we are all called but few are chosen because of our responses to the call.  When we are called, we can respond with a hardy amen to the Spirit’s conviction and truly repent, turning from our sins in our consciousness of mind and heart and confess our sins, asking the good Lord to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness and to come into our lives and to be our Lord and Savior and be ready on his return.  Or, we can reject the calling and go on living our lives our way and never be ready when Jesus returns to get his people, if we are still alive at the time.  

No man knows the time or the hour when Jesus will return, but each one can be ready whether we are here or have already departed going where we have determined by our own choices and free will to choose.  The choice is up to each of us, what will yours be?

May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you all have a super day!!