December 21, 2012; are you ready for it?

December 21, 2012; are you ready for it?

Do I believe that the end of the world is going to happen on the day many people are predicting to be everyone’s last day on earth? No I do not. I believe what the Bible says in Matthew 24:36 ““But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,^[a]but only the Father.” I believe this to be true and fact that we will not ever be able to figure out exactly the day or time when God the Father will return and the last few years of the world will happen.

However this whole hype has really got me to thinking about the end of the world type happenings that are described in the full chapter of Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation. Though I don’t believe that the end of the world would take place on December 21 this year I do believe that it was a great way to get Christian’s back off their comfortable butts and back out into the world. What if it was the end of it all coming? What if December 21 was the last day all Christians were on this earth before Jesus returns to bring us all to heaven? Are we ready? Will we be excited to see him? Or would we wish for a lot more time because we start realizing all of our family, friends and even people we don’t know who are going to be left behind that He gave us more than ample opportunities to talk to about our faith?

I think too many times we get caught up in the worldly things we want to do and we skip the whole idea that tomorrow or even today could be our last day here on earth. What if we did know that in less than two months Christ would come back and our chances of reaching out to the lost and showing them the Jesus we know who can save them just like He saved us? Would we stop worrying about the little things that don’t matter? Would we stop trying to find ways to bigger and better everything we have? Would we stop focusing on things like, what shoes is my kid going to wear to school, limit the shoes to one pair that might get worn out and spend the extra cash on making sure we have the biggest Christian outreaches there are to make sure we could reach as many people between now and then as humanly possible?  Would we give all of our time as much as humanly possible to reaching out to our neighbors, friends and family to make sure they knew the end was really near and their time to accept Jesus Christ’s offer was limited.

The time is limited for some that we meet. You don’t know if that person you met at the library yesterday will live through the night. You don’t know if the biggest loves of your life will even live through the night. We don’t know how much time they have and we can’t guarantee we even have that much time ourselves. We all are given limited time but thousands of opportunities to shine for Jesus to grow his kingdom.

Remember, when you get to heaven God doesn’t care what your excuse for wasted time, He holds you accountable for the people He led to your path. He isn’t going to ask you why your missionary friends didn’t do it or why your pastor didn’t do it or your Sunday school teacher; He’s going to ask you.  He isn’t going to be happy to hear that you didn’t have time to stop and talk that day, or that you didn’t know you were suppose to witness to them, or that you got nervous of what they would think of you or reject what you had to say. He expects us to reach the world with our lights no matter how big or small they may seem to us, He has plans to use the light you have.

For those who don’t know Christ personally, time is not an option to play with. If God says ‘times up,’ will you be ready for it?