Prepare to meet your God II

Tuesday 26 July
READ: Lk. 3:1-9
MORE LESSON: Rev. 22:12-15

It is common knowledge that if a man doesn't prepare for a thing, when it comes, he will be caught unawares. Lack of preparation leads to regret because whatever is not prepared for will not be properly done. If there is a visitor coming to you at a time and you do not know the time he will come but he said that he could walk in at any time, the best thing to do for such a visitor is to be prepared 24 hours in a day, seven days in a week, thirty days in a month, all year round. You just get ready for that visitor so that any moment he comes, you are not caught unawares. This is the attitude to assume in the issue of preparing for life after death and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. This issue needs urgent attention because Jesus can come at any time.

Life is fragile and death can come any time. Death is not the end for all men are heading somewhere after death. There is life after death and it will be either spent in hell or in the presence of God. Whatsoever we do now or do not do, will determine where we end. The body will return to dust and the spirit will return to God. Whatsoever we do now to prepare for that time is what is most important. Everything on the face of the earth is good, but any life that is lived with the abundance of every good thing without a good relationship with God will be regretted. It will obviously be regretted because a time will come when you will have to stand before your God and explain how you spent your time on the face of the earth. All the things that God has given you the privilege to attain, all the things you have acquired, those you were not able to get, one day you will stand before God to give account.

God told the people of Israel to prepare to meet their God (Amos 4: 12). God had to forewarn His own people about the danger of living a life without preparation to meet Him. Those of us who are privileged to be in the world today need to be warned and warned again. So the Lord is calling our attention to this great issue again today, prepare to meet your God, But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death: Rev. 21:8.

PRAYER/ACTION
* The coming of the Lord shall not meet me unawares, in Jesus’ name.
* I shall not be ashamed to meet with my Lord at the end of my life, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Today is a good gift from God, I reject evil from dawn to dusk, in the name of Jesus.