"Being Ready" cannot wait

Ready for the end of the world? Ready for death? I am sure many reading this are indifferent to this question. You don't care. But if you care about what you eat each day. You care about who you meet. You care about your health. And perhaps, you even care about people, your community and/or the environment. Then, you are avoiding the question about being ready for the most important event of your life, because you don't know the answer. John writes about this in Revelations.

Revelation 1:3

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.

The time is near!  In the KJV it says, the time is at hand!  The revelation given to John is difficult to completely appreciate because He is sharing God's perspective on time (from eternity to eternity).  In the human context, time cannot be stored.  If you missed it, you missed it.  It is spent.  You cannot redeem time.  It is gone.  In God's perspective, He is the beginning and the end.  Time is so different for Him and this is why we need God in our lives to fully appreciate what He has for us.

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 1:4-5
John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood.

Asia is the most unreached part of the world today for the gospel of Jesus Christ. Having said that, their history shows so much about how the gospel message had traveled into these countries, but the ancestors of the current generation were distracted or blinded from the original messages in their history. The letters to the seven churches can be interpreted as God's way of reminding Asia the history they have and what is to come.

In my journey through the Bible I have reflected about its authenticity and currency. If you have yet to read it, please reserve your judgment until you read it yourself. It will help you be ready for death, the end of the world and Jesus.  Give time to read His Word.  The football game can wait.  The movie or favorite TV show can wait.  Halloween can wait.  "Being ready" cannot wait.

Father, help me prepare many for eternity.