Serious Words!

Mark 13

“Be on guard! Be alert!” (vs. 33)  “What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’” (vs. 37)

These are serious words from our Father that should never be taken lightly.  Just last night I was reading in the book, Revolution in World Missions, about how serious a decision it is to follow Christ.  That just as much as Heaven and God’s Love is real, so is Hell and Satan’s tactics to get us there.   We have to be on guard and alert at all times, and we must certainly always be on watch.  We need to watch our actions, our thoughts, our words, and our hearts.  We need to be careful in all that we do and make sure that we are seeking Christ in it all. 

It seems that we are always saying how much worse can this world get, what else will happen?  But we know from God’s Word that this is how it is suppose to be, it will not get any better, in fact we know that it will get worse.  His word tells us that ‘if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive’ (vs.20).  The days will become so bad that the length of day will have to be cut short for survival?  Now, I have to be honest, that scares me a bit.  Not because of the reasons that you may think, but because I pray that my faith is strong enough to survive such a day.  You see at this moment I love Jesus more than I ever have in my entire life, but let’s face it I have never had to survive any type of persecution for the sake of Christ.  Unlike much of the world, we American Christians have had it pretty easy, so easy we should be praising him with everything we have in us for making it this easy for us to serve him so freely.  However, because of this lifestyle we have to be all the more prepared for the days to come.  We have to prepare by praying more, reading the Bible more, seeking him with all our mind, our heart and our soul.

There will come a day that ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be will be shaken’ (vs. 24) and I want to love Jesus and have more faith on that day than I do at this moment when it seems that all is right in my world.

I don’t know about you, but I feel a pulling to my Father to draw even closer to him, to depend on him more, to know him more, and to be ever so watchful of the enemy as he tries with all his might to weaken my faith in Jesus Christ.  My friends, the time to become serious about who we serve is now, we can no longer waiver in our service to Jesus, it is time to give him our all no matter what the world may say!