Get Ready!

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night, 

1 Thessalonians 5:2

Our first Winter blizzard is heading our way.  It's still three days out, but you should hear the talk and see all the activity.  Living in the North, the first mention of a blizzard, everyone goes into full preparedness.  You see people in lines at the gas station, not only filling up their cars, but extra gas cans to run their generators.  They make sure their generators are in full working mode, and if not, they are the first ones in line at your local hardware store to see the latest models. While they are there, they will also pick out a new snow shovel, a new hat and warmer gloves.  The lawn mowers have all been put away for the year, and in its place, the snowblower has taken up residence.  The grocery stores are busier than most days, and if you aren't there quick enough, you just might do without some of the bare necessities, milk, bread, eggs, soup, just to name a few.  You can feel the anticipation in the air:  the big storm is coming!

Jesus is coming too!  

"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."  Words of Jesus, John 14:3

"And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven."

Acts 1:10,11

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so, shall we ever be with the Lord."  1 Thessalonians 4:16,17

So, with the promise of Christ's return, I wondering, where is all the talk?  Preparing?  Anticipation?

Are we searching our hearts to make sure we are in The Faith?  Are we going about our Father's work until He returns?

Are we waiting?  Watching?

If not, why not?  

There have been times in the past when we all prepare for the 'big storm' and guess what?  It either fizzles out or moves South, but I can guarantee you that the Lord will return one day.  He promised He will, and His Word is True-

    So, I'm getting ready!

            But that's just me!

"Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments."

C.S. Lewis