Prepare

So I just finished running 4 miles. The best part is that I didn't stop and I finished it under the time that I had allotted for myself. Which was 44 minutes and 54 seconds. I finished in 43 minutes and 4 seconds. haha that is SO slow. But I was happy for not stopping. I'm then thinking about how lately I've found a need to get in shape and want to really push myself to see how far I can go.

There's the recap, now let us get up to speed. Everything's been about Jesus lately. Like it always should be. Honestly, part of me is excited for Jesus to come back. Now, I'd like you to know that I myself do not believe that when the "end times" come that all Christians will be swept up to Heaven. I believe that we will in fact have to endure what everyone else does until the time Jesus physically comes down from Heaven and then (if we are not dead yet) will be taken up to Heaven. It's kind of how the Bible put's it, so that is how I take it.

Now my thought: What if we endure this in our lifetime? Will we be ready? Do you understand how much running we will be doing? Both physically and mentally. We will be running for our lives and running to tell the world that Jesus is legitimately near. Not "near" like He will one day come back but "near" like He will come back in exactly 3 years and four days because according to the Bible we are currently enduring __(blank)___ prophecy of the book of Revelation. Which at that point we may have needed to memorize because all Bible were burned and confiscated. No longer can we go to a Hotel and find a Bible in the drawer... they're gone. Seriously though. What if I have to be prepared to save my family. To fight for my family. Then the thought came that I should learn to fight ha ha. Are we prepared to lead large masses of people (or few)? Because we will need to. It will be our responsibility to do this not just pastors. When family members and leaders die, will we be prepared to step up and take on what they were doing?

Maybe we will see this day, maybe we won't. But we should be prepared either way just in case. It is our responsibility, not theirs.