Does HE Have Your Attention?

Stress is hard on your knees, makes your head ache, bad on your back, hurts your heart, and "drains" a person, both physically and emotionally; "a real killer"! Matt. 11:28 says, "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." I Lord, along with a whole cast of others need your rest today......Thanks for the promise, Lord.

Our lives are "full of it". Ever heard that saying before? I have. But I'm not talking about the worldly "obvious" statement made when people think we are "full of it"! I'm talking about the stressors of life that fill us up daily and create in us an inability to walk, talk, or think of anything else because we are so stressed out with a little bit of everything.

Barb and I were having dinner last night with some close Christian friends of ours and we were talking about how "fast" we could actually see the world "spinning out of control." Some of you probably don't even notice it. You get up each day and go to work, sometimes, not even aware of the news of the day. Then you come home to your families and tend to the business of caring for them.

Then some of you notice it, but just shrug it off as "just another catastrophe" in today's world, sort of like, "this too shall pass."

But after over thirty years of being a Bible-studying Christian, I don't see it quite that way. I see the Revelation of the Apostle John fast approaching us and each day it seems to come faster and faster and I wonder; How many of us are ready?"

The Bible is the final authority on our "Eternity" and it has a lot to say about our preparedness or the lack thereof. It is the trials of life that I have experienced along with my salvation through the Lord, Jesus Christ that has given me the preparedness required to look at today's world and know with a certainty what is taking place.

The "Terminator" (Arnold) was not the first one to coin the phrase "I'll be back"! Our Lord Jesus, when He left this world, made us plenty aware that His return was eminent and that we should expect His return for the church. First Thessalonians 4:16,17 says, "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive, and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord."

That tells me that we, as "fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ" should not only be prepared, but looking up as well, because He could be here, "in the twinkling of an eye"!

Does HE have your attention?

Dave