Are you ready?

    Speaking for myself, I am not ready. But I should be. God's Holy hand could come down at any moment and I would not be ready. Yes, I pray. I beg. I asked and supplication for things like discernment, strength, knowledge, peace. But if the bombs would start flying, obliviating life as I once knew it, leaving me helpless, homeless, without loved ones, I would be at quite a loss. No one, I believe, is ever ready for that reality. But we could be. The news reports that we see daily of terrible war in parts of the world, the seem so far away, I think that placates are minds to the point of not even imagining that it could ever happen to us. It doesn't even have to be bombs. As floods, tornadoes or any other catastrophe could hit and it would be just as devastating. 

     I could cry all day with deep sorrow for this world but it won't get me anywhere unless I am truly convinced that my life is totally in order. Until, I have shown patience in trials and total surrender and happiness in suffering. The way He did for me. 

     A child is a good example of how we should all be. Totally depending on the goodness of God, carefree and trusting. They exist for our eyes to see a great role they play on the goodness of our great teacher who first created us "all" as children. Watch a child sometime. They don't really worry about anything. They are dependent on the arms and protection of their father and mother. We should do the same. He has said, "why do you worry?" "Even the birds of the air and the flowers of the field rely on me". I take those words that, even the smallest of things created have their existence totally on relying on their Creator. 

     Being ready for anything of great concern takes a lot of prep and prayer. Today I will include myself in this holy destiny which God has already planned out for me, even before I was born. I am grateful for His patience.