Live Ready

I was reading this news article this morning: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/101016/top_news/science_us_japan_astrophysics.

the first few lines of this article say:
"The end of the world as we know it cannot be avoided, but it can be predicted, according to a group of astrophysicists who see a 50 percent chance of the final countdown ending in 3.7 billion years.

"Time is unlikely to end in our lifetime, but there is a 50 percent chance that time will end within the next 3.7 billion years," according to the team of US and Japanese scientists, who are challenging a long-standing theory of the universe."

3.7 billion years? really?

I find interesting all the people who try to come up with the date and time of the end of the world. You have probably seen the supermarket tabloids just as I have... almost every week one of them is reminding us that the world will end in 1999, 2000, 2012... on and on they go...

We are all looking for answers... and the Bible gives us an answer as well... Jesus, in Matthew 24 says:

36 "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.
41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42 "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him." (NIV)

Jesus doesn't give us an exact date, but He does tell us that the world is coming to an end... His main message form this passage is that we are to "Live Ready".

The end of the world is going to come, just like the scientists have predicted. (Jesus said so first!)  but, it will come at a time when we do not expect it... so we need to live each day as if it might be our last.

As C.T. Studd once said: "Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last."


Are you ready for the end of the world? You can be, simply invite Jesus into your world, and live for Him and at the end of the world, He will invite you into His world.