Are we ready for Jesus?

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As believers, we know that the world as we see it today will one day come to an end. Christ will return and usher in a new era before judgment day comes and before the end of time as we know it arrives. There will be the great tribulation as revealed in Revelations which is expected to run for around 3 years. There is a debate whether we will be raptured before or after tribulation but the end is that there will be a new heaven and a new earth, a new Jerusalem and God will dwell among His people. The Kingdom of God will be established physically on earth following the Second Coming of Christ.

The question today is are we ready to face Christ if He comes again today? He will come when we least expect like a thief in the night, yet are we ready and prepared for Him like the servants that are fully dressed, ready to serve the Master? Jesus spoke about this in Luke 12:35-40. Are we ready?

How do we want to be when Christ returns? Perhaps like Abraham Davenport, we want to be doing the thing God appointed us to do? Perhaps we want to be serving God in church when Christ comes again? Leading worship, leading a bible study or preaching a message or sharing Christ with someone? To be ready like that we need to be doing the thing God had planned for us and comtinually serving God in church and ministry.

I think the lesson and message today is that we will never know when exactly Christ will return although we know He will. The best we can do is to be ready and that means we do what He has called us to do and serve Him in His Kingdom of Grace. Continue to do those things and do not neglect meeting with one another. Keep our lives upright. Live in the glory of His grace. Then whenever He comes which He certainly will, we are “dressed” and ready!