As I sit back and watch what happened in Japan today it makes me sad. Lives lost in an instant, hundreds missing or dead, and it makes me stop and think. I wonder if all these people who are missing or dead realized that today would be the day they would meet their maker. Was this just another day at work? How many of those lost and now gone were preparing for this to be their last day? I don't want to say none because there could always be one, but most of these people were just doing their daily routines. Go to work, provide for a family, and were planning on coming home. For many, that is no longer a choice.
I went to church tonight and the sermon was on the "End Times." When I was younger this used to scare me. Thinking that one day the world would be run by an "anti-christ." But God reassured me of something tonight. While I was at the alter praying he spoke and said I've chosen you to be a vessel to spread my word in these last days. To make sure that people know of me, and make decisions to follow me. I know there are some of you who while reading this will think, oh here she goes again, preaching, but I want to tell you what is at stake. I can talk until I am blue in the face, but ultimately it goes down to you personally. Do you have a relationship with Christ? Do you know for a fact if you died tonight in your sleep that you would go to see Jesus, and while at the Judgement, you would be told to come on in to heaven. "Well done good and faithful servant." The bible states that tomorrow is promised to no one. When you look at the things happening in this world you see we are living in the last days. It can be scary if you have read and know what is to come. But we serve a just God. The pastor tonight said that God has poured out his love on this world for 6,000 years, and a time is coming when that love will no longer be felt on Earth. Not because he stops loving us, but that we have rejected him time and time again. That is why God places people in your lives to share his love with you, to challenge you to make a choice to follow Him. But friend, the time is now to repent and give your life to Christ, fully surrendered. You have to make the choice. We can live a life on this earth for 60, 70, maybe 80 years if we are lucky, and all of it be in vain if the whole time we didn't stop and think about our future. Is 80 years on this Earth doing what you want worth an eternity in hell? I challenge you to get your heart right. It's the best thing you can do!! You can find hope, love, peace, strength, in a God that wants to bless you but can't if you don't allow him a chance. Seek your heart tonight.. Ask yourself if you were to die if you would make heaven your home. If you aren't clear you can be! Let me HELP! Praying for you all, always!
God Bless
~Anna
