We had a snow storm one day last week. It was the wet, heavy kind of snow. You know the kind of snow that packs and stays together. Perfect for snowball fights or building a snowman. When I came home from work that day, that is exactly what the next door neighbor kids had done. They built a snowman. Of course by the time that I arrived at home, it was almost all melted and gone. It had warmed up enough to not keep it around much longer. That got me to thinking about our lives here on earth. I started thinking, that like this snowman, we are here one day and then gone the next.
James 4:14 Amplified Bible (AMP)
14 Yet you do not know the least thing about what may happen in your life tomorrow. What is secure in your life? You are merely a vapor like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot that is visible for a little while and then vanishes into thin air.
Just like that snowman that was so packed together and stood tall for a few hours and then melted away, that's how our lives are. We are here, enjoying the things that life has to offer, and then in a moment, it's all gone. Our live are over. Like a mist.
Unlike that snowman, who is an inanimate object. It could not prepare for what came later that day. We can and are able to prepare ourselves for Christ's return.
God calls us to be ready at all times.
Matthew 24:44 New Living Translation (NLT)
44 You also must be ready all the time, for the Son of Man will come when least expected.
So I urge you. Get right with God today. Tomorrow may be to late. Never to early to start. God wants us all to be with Him. To live with Him forever.
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