I'm not prepared

It's funny where and what life throws at you. Most of it we aren't prepared for.

Thinking back....I wasn't prepared to be a mom at 20 years old......wasn't prepared to be a wife at 22.......and be a mom again two more times.......or prepared when your kids leave the nest......

I wasn't prepared to leave my parents home and be family in a new home.......wasn't prepared to have loved ones die too soon.......or go to school at 39 years old......most of all I wasnt prepared to be a Christian at 26......

And I could say that most of the blessings in this life are usually the ones we aren't prepared for, like marriage, children, jobs, etc.....but we all know this is just how life works.  We understand that some things are bigger than we are and we have to prepare. We understand that not all things in this life can be done without any preparation. Like weddings and funerals. We definitely need to prepare for them.

My daughter got married almost 2 years ago......we planned and shopped and prepared for months. It was a fun time. Wondering what it would have been like with no preparation......the people would have been hungry.....the pastor would have been unprepared to marry them......no flowers....or pictures.....it would have been a mess. But by preparing we got it to be a beautiful day.

When I say I wasn't prepared to be a Christian at 26.....I was referring to the change. The change that came over me at that time was amazing, yet a little scary. I remember right after I was saved, one Sunday morning I turned on TV, and was watching Charles Stanley preach before we left for church. This was new to me I never watched a preacher on TV....let alone before going to church....which I didn't do too much either. I asked my husband what was happening to me....he said...."that's how it works. That's how the Holy Spirit moves in us to help us grow in Christ". I didn't really know what all he was talking about at the time, but my hunger for the word was, and still is, insatiable.
Nothing could have prepared me for this change......one that was foreign to me. But it was an unpreparedness I would do again.

In thinking about being unprepared.....there is one thing we cannot be unprepared for. We have to be prepared for our Savior's return or the day we die.
Matthew 24:36 tells us no one knows the day or the hour of Jesus return.......
verse 42 tells us to keep watch......
and verse 44 tells us that we need to be ready because we don't know when he will come again.


There is no time for waiting in deciding for Jesus.  Jesus is waiting for all of us.....he's waiting to bring us to himself......he's waiting for You.....he will never push himself on you. He wants our love and devotion to him alone.
Be prepared so when you meet him you are ready.