“YOU ALSO MUST BE READY!”

 Matthew 24:54-51                              (ESV)

“44 Therefore “YOU ALSO MUST BE READY”, for the SON of MAN is coming AT AN HOUR YOU DO NOT EXPECT.

45 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

46 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

47 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.

48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed,'

49 and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards,

50 the master of that servant will come on a day when he DOES NOT EXPECT him and at an hour he DOES NOT KNOW

51 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Times of uncertainty are growing as darkness is continuing to increase.  NO ONE is able to exactly predict when JESUS CHRIST will return to rapture we who are CHOSEN by THE FATHER!  Matthew 24:36 is blatantly clear that “But concerning that day and hour NO ONE KNOWS, not even the angels of heaven, nor the SON, but the FATHER ONLY!”  Since even JESUS the CHRIST is unaware of day and hour, wouldn’t it be prudent for we who are HIS Servants to be alerting others that “YOU ALSO MUST BE READY”?  

Our CREATOR gave us HIS WORD to guide us, kind of like a roadmap assisting us through “this world”.  FAITH IS REQUIRED, not preferred, to please the FATHER (Hebrews 11:6), and this FAITH is not always doing what we think is best, but DOING what HIS WORD instructs us to do!  GOD IN THE FLESH prayed to the FATHER before going to the cross, “MY FATHER, if it be possible, let this cup pass from ME; nevertheless, not as I will, but as YOU will."  We tend to get our own ideas of what HE desires to accomplish in our lives, but we MUST come to the place where we are willing to say “nevertheless, not as I will, but as YOU will”!  

Would I be willing to surrender my life for HIS GLORY?  Sure, it is HIS anyway!  But what about my wife, my children, or my grandchildren?!?  They ALL belong to HIM anyway, so why do we think that we are “in control”???  

FATHER IN HEAVEN, continue opening my EYES to SEE that YOU are in control.  YOU were in control of the rough seas (Matthew 8:23-27) and YOU haven’t surrendered any power!  Cause me to recognize that I am just a CREATION of YOURS and that “YOU ALSO MUST BE READY” for YOUR PLAN for my life!!!