Can We Stand?

Luke 21:34-36

34″Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. 35For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

One thing about Jesus is that He hits the nail on the head when He says, “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.”

That is straight-talk to us. And we need to listen to it. We do not know when the end will come…none of us. We don’t know when our individual lives will end. We don’t know when anything else will happen either. Therefore, it seems to be that it would behoove us to get ready for the end right this very minute. And we need to stay in a state of preparedness.

How would you like to die and stand before the “judgment seat” and have nothing to say other than, “I didn’t see it coming.” I don’t want to be in that position. We all know that we will not be perfect, but we can conduct our lives in such a way that we can stand before God…not as a perfect creature, but as a person who is ready to meet His Maker…no matter when that time is.

I wonder what all of us would do if we knew for certain that we would be dead at noon tomorrow? Makes me wonder.

Carol

Bible Breath: Stand up, lift / Your face to God