Be Prepared for the Path Ahead
Barbara Henderson
How do you prepare for the path
ahead? I mean it looks like the world is
going through a paradigm shift in right and wrong. God has been thrown out as the standard by
which good and evil are judged. Judges
are openly proclaiming evil good and good evil.
Money for which people work very hard is stolen from the through taxes
and passed out freely to lazy illiterates and illegals. And the very brutal truth is that no one
actually knows how to prepare for the future.
How can we prepare for a future that has no precedence? The future is
more of an unknown that ever. Except for
one thing that is. With the exception of
those who leave this earth in the ‘rapture of the church’ we are all going to
die! (What is the rapture and when will it
happen?’ http://tobarbara.blogspot.com/2011/05/rapture-what-is-it-and-when-will-it.html )
That you will die is not an unknown. We don’t know the exact day or hour or even
year. But, it is going to happen. Now is the time to prepare for this event! And no, you don’t prepare by getting a
pre-paid funeral, although that isn’t a bad idea. You prepare by accepting the invitation of
Jesus Christ to go to heaven at His expense.
To put it bluntly if you don’t prepare to go to heaven you are going to
hell. No one in heaven is going to wish
they had gone to hell. Those in hell
will all be looking for an escape, but there will be no escape. Hell is eternal.
Have you prepared for the one event
that is surely coming to you? Have you
put your trust in Jesus Christ? Do you
know you are saved? (Are
Christians right when they say I need to get saved? http://tobarbara.blogspot.com/2011/05/are-christians-right-when-they-say-i.html )
Once you have been saved the time to
lay up treasures in heaven begins. You have a very real future in heaven. In heaven there is no corruption and no
thieves. (Many people in heaven were former thieves, but through repentance
they were cleansed from all unrighteousness.)
What you store in heaven stays in heaven. You do this through obedience to God, striving
to conform to the image of Christ, by loving others the way Christ loved you, studying
the Bible, learning the teachings of the God through the Bible, gaining
patience, and generally applying sound Bible teachings to personal actions. You
do this daily and consistently.
Trust the Lord. As you do what the Lord says to do you trust
Him to take care of the rest. There have
been instances where the Lord has provided food out of thin air for His children. But trusting the Lord does not take away
responsibility to do the best you can with the resources given to you. Payday means pay the bills, buy food, give to
God, and buy the things you need. It does
not mean spend it all on fun things and trust God to provide more money to pay
your bills. It means trust the Lord to
begin with; do everything you are capable of doing; and trust God to manage the
results of your labor. In other words,
be action based instead of outcome based.
Truthfully, we can often see the likely result of our labor, but we
can’t know the exact outcome. Often
harder work provides better results. Today in the labor market the opposite is
true. Buying power is less. More money does not go farther than it did
even a few years ago. Inflation is
eating up the fruit of our labor. We
have no control over this. Just do the
best you can and trust God. Because the
government has become a den of thieves does not give Christians the right to
stop providing for our own families and paying our taxes. Like many of you I wish Jesus had left out
the part of the gospel that says, ‘render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s,
and unto God that which is God’s.’ God
is always right, so be obedient to do what He says to do.
A change in leadership in a nation is
not going to change a lot. It may help
in some instances, but national leadership is not where the real change needs
to be. The real change needs to be in
Christians trusting God and crying out to Him for mercy. Many people and so-called preachers of the
gospel are preaching social injustice and social change instead of preaching
Jesus Christ. The outcome of such heresy
from the pulpit is that the lost do not hear the plan of salvation. We often hear people and preachers saying
what Jesus would do in certain situations.
They need to give a Biblical example to back up their blather. Jesus did feed thousands, but He did it
without government assistance. He didn’t
ask for government intervention when He threw the money changers out of the
temple. Jesus had no opinion as far as
rich or poor being better. The rich
young ruler loved his riches more than he wanted to follow Jesus. That was the sin that cost him salvation. He was ‘rich in spirit’ meaning he was proud
and comfortable. Poor people can also be rich in spirit. Jesus loved sinners of all sorts enough to
tell the truth. Repent and turn from your sin or you will go to hell.
Be brave. Be strong and of good courage.
‘And David said to Solomon
his son, Be strong and of good courage,
and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the Lord God, even my God, will be
with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished
all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.’ 1 Chronicles 28:20
The world does not like Christians. The world hates the truth. The world hates God. The world hates Jesus. As God is love, the
world system is hate. Governments gobble
power and control like chickens gobble up worms. Christians are standing in their way. Never the less, it is the duty of the
Christian who actually cares about the lost to tell the truth.
‘He that speaketh truth
sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.’ Proverbs 12:17.
When I think about the current
political and social situation in the United States it breaks my heart. The thought that comes to mind is that where
there is no love of God there is no nation worth saving. However, the USA and the entire world are
full of people who need salvation. Every
soul saved has a citizenship in heaven.
Heaven is the nation in which we will spend eternity, and heaven is in
no need of salvation. Everyone there is safe in the hand of God. Heaven is already perfect. Love you country,
but love heaven more. Heaven is your
eternal home.
If you were out to win a popularity
contest you would lose if your talent was talking about Jesus Christ and His
plan of salvation. But, you would
wise. Proverbs 11:30 says, ‘The
fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is
wise.’
Truly, our actions may make an earthly
nation a better place to live. But we
cannot save a nation from sin. We can
point the way to Jesus Christ. We can
pray for souls to be saved so the population of heaven will be larger. The Bible says we can’t understand the things
that God has prepared for them that love Him.
But it is a place that has room for more people. Do something good for the wonderful place you
are going when you die. Tell the lost
how to meet you in heaven. (Meet Me There – hymn – with lyrics –
wonderful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaWv4gLqyeg )
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