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Day 14

Are You Ready... 2 Timothy 2:15

Here’s a question for you all? Are you ready the priesthood or become a nun but there are
and prepared for tomorrow? Is everything a few things you can do naturally in life to
in place to ensure you day goes smoothly? I ensure we are spiritually ready. Like making
would imagine most of you are now nodding it up with friends you may have upset, getting
or thinking of course it is. But let’s extend in touch with that family member you had a
that a little, are you ready for next week, next row with some years ago, saying sorry for the
month, next year? No, of course not. At this things you’ve done. Not rocket science but
moment in time we are not sure what is going something all of us fall short of. Most of all,
to happen so we don’t have the correct forgive.
information to prepare. Or do we?...
The one thing that the bible teaches us,
We can look forward and prepare for what coming to think of it so do all Holy books,
we know will happen. One example of this, is the most important of all things. Love the
is that busy season that everybody starts to Lord, your God and love your neighbour as
prepare for in the summer. As soon as the yourself. If you cannot forgive, how can you
temperature drops by a few degrees in October expect to be forgiven. If you cannot love,
you can guarantee that the Christmas trees how can you expect to be loved. If you cannot
and decorations appear in the shops, people save, how can you expect to be saved.
start buying presents for people to budget the
cost and we find ourselves in a crazy world A soldier on the battlefield has to train,
of worrying about things that are not really prepare and plan in order to carry out his
important in the grand scheme of things. duties. It often involves hard work, pain and
suffering but he does it because he knows it is
I wonder how many are spiritually prepared right and for the good of others. We don’t have
for the future. If there is one thing I have to go that far but we can use that as a good
learned it takes but a brief unseen moment inspiration to get ready for what will come.
for a life to end. How can we ever prepare
for that? We can’t to be honest, nobody can Remember that however hard things may get,
foresee how or when we will meet our end but you have someone on your shoulder who will
we can do things to make sure our soul is never desert you, he will never walk away. And
ready for whatever may happen. No one is if you ask him, he will help you to prepare.
saying you have to turn into a saint or join

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