Are You Ready?
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. (Matthew 16:27) Some teach that the Lord is preparing us for our breakthrough, our destiny, and some blessed or exalted place on this earth, but that is not true. The Lord is preparing you for His return, and He is preparing you for heaven! Heaven is the prize, not anything we can achieve in this world. The success we look for on earth may very well distract and deter us from the real prize; and that prize is the crown we will receive for our faithfulness to God. The Bible consistently teaches us the necessity of spiritual preparedness; because we will not have time to get ourselves ready when Christ returns — we must be ready. In other words, preparedness is a state of being for the Christian. Therefore, the Holy Spirit is not simply preparing us for that Day, He is that preparation, and Spirit-filled believers...