Being a current events junkie, I got my fix this morning surfing the major news sites. Predictably, all gave the largest block letters to three stories – the battle for Libya, yesterday’s eastern seaboard earthquake, and a bad girl brewing up in the Caribbean named Irene. CBS News online featured this headline about the approaching hurricane today – ‘Irene now Category 3; U.S. in crosshairs’.
Personally I grew up and lived most of my life in Florida, a place very familiar with fierce hurricanes. I now live in earthquake country - California. Though neither meteorological or geological anomaly are particularly enjoyable, I would admit that earthquakes are preferable. Why? Because by the time you realize an earthquake is happening it’s almost over! On the other hand, for days and days back east, one is subjected to reports of approaching categorized doom! Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for the advanced tracking technology, but waiting for catastrophic storms can be a bit unsettling.
Growing up with sand in my shoes, we all were well-trained in the drill. When a hurricane’s path was even remotely nearby people prepare. Plywood is bought to board-up windows. Bottled water is purchased, as are batteries and non-perishable food. Likewise, gas tanks are topped-off just in case a run to higher inland ground is necessary. Shelters are announced and manned. Schools and businesses stop, and ‘hurricane parties’ begin.
Today as I was sipping my Project 7 coffee, I was reminded that more people are talking about and aggressively preparing for Irene than the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Scriptures, Christ, and angels all foretell that the Lord’s second advent will come suddenly, with no advanced notice from The Weather Channel. In the blink of an eye every human being will either rejoice or wail at the reality of His coming.
Are you preparing?
Are you preparing your life and the lives of those you live with, play with, and work with for that great and dreadful day?
For you personally, will His promised return be a glorious and welcomed fulfilled, or, a tragic and regretful interruption?
In the very last chapter of the Bible, Jesus tells us three very intentional times that He is ‘coming soon’. In other words, He wants you to be ready!
Something really big is brewing. Something greater than our highest expectations and worst nightmares is an approaching reality. Something historically unprecedented is coming our way as a planet. It’s an unavoidable biblical certainty. We’re in the crosshairs.
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