Are You Ready?
I woke up recently, in more ways than one. I lay in bed one morning, not yet praying, but thinking. Then a thought came to me: what would it be like when Jesus comes back? How would it be for me? Then, in what I can only say must have been a 'guided image,' I saw Jesus suddenly shining like the lightening from the east to the west around the Earth. Then, as I was being lifted up into the sky to be drawn to Him, my only thought was, 'Wait! I'm not ready!' I was surprised, shocked. What? Me, not ready? Do I love my life so much, or the world so much that I would seriously say such a thing? And as I thought about how I had felt when saying 'I'm not ready!' I had to admit that it was my life, no matter how dull or painful or uninteresting it might be, that I was talking about. Apparently, I am not ready to be with Him when I am in one of those life states, when I am complaining that I think I am ready but find doubt in my heart. That isn't w...