Be Ready!

            A few days ago, I woke up early from a slightly stressful dream. I dreamed that it was my wedding day. I was getting ready and realized that I apparently failed to plan everything! My dress was old and tattered. My veil was hideous and did not match my dress at all. It was more like a long floor length hat with jewels on it. I couldn’t get my hair to style right. When I looked in the mirror, I looked absolutely awful. Also, my dad didn’t know if his suit matched the groom’s suit. Nothing was coordinated. I had not prepared at all! To top it all off, I was running late for my own wedding. I was so embarrassed. I was ashamed of myself. How could I not plan better-to look beautiful for my soon to be husband? I was afraid he would take one look at me and say, “No, I’m not marrying you! Get away from me!” I realize this was just a dream, but I have very realistic dreams sometimes. This dream was just stressing me out, ha!

            Well, as you can imagine, I finally woke up from this dream. As I was reflecting on it, I remembered that the Bible refers to the church as the bride and Jesus is the Bridegroom. It dawned on me that when I meet Jesus (whether I die or He comes back), I want to be ready to meet Him! I want to be beautiful for Him! How can I do this? Not by following a list of dos and don’ts, but by knowing Him. After all, what bride doesn’t intimately know the groom and want to spend time with him? In the same way, I need to know Jesus and spend time with Him. By doing this, He will make me beautiful by making me more like Him. I don’t want to be like I was in my dream- Ashamed that I didn’t prepare myself for my groom. I do not want to hear Jesus say the words I was afraid my groom in my dream would say. But Jesus warned that He would say these words to some: “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” (Matthew 7:23) I cannot even imagine how terrible being separated from Jesus for eternity could be. I know that I won’t be separated from Him, because He gave his life for my sins and I have given my life to Him and have a relationship with Him. I pray my relationship with Him grows more every day and that I become more like Him so that I will be beautiful when I see Him face to face.

            “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For He says: ‘In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.’ Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2

Let’s all Be Ready!!!