Are You Ready? 

   In a few days Christmas will be here.  Families will gather as best they can in these days of Covid restrictions.  Meals will be cooked, and shared, gifts will be exchanged.  Are you ready?

   It amazes me how many people wait until the last minute to prepare for a day that comes every year at the same time.  It’s not like it’s unexpected.  The stores and on-line merchants go to great lengths to make sure we know it’s coming.  Still, there are those who are fighting the crowds, pushing, and shoving, trying to get that very special gift or the perfect turkey or ham at the very last moment.

   Sadly, some also take the same approach in preparing for eternal life, many put it off until the very last minute.  Death-bed conversions, confessions and salvations are incredible blessings, and it seems some have decided that they will wait until that very last opportunity to consider their immortal soul.  God lovingly accepts their last second conversion and rejoices at another soul saved for He is a loving and merciful God.

   The problem with that attitude is we have no idea whether than chance will ever present itself.  A truck crashing into the side of our compact vehicle may end it all in an instance.  A massive heart attack may not allow even a few seconds to consider eternity.

   So the question remains, are you ready?  Not just for Christmas but are you ready for inevitable end that we all come to; the time when you will stand before Christ and be judged?  Have you prepared, are you ready? 

Father, only you know the hour of our death.

We act as if it will never come.

We need to prepare ourselves.

Our immortal soul is at stake. 

Amen