“You weren’t ready…”
Are you kidding me!?

 

Sometimes Christians get things wrong. (And: I take a great pleasure by saying: “Duh!”) I’ll say it again: “Duh!”  Even pastors can be wrong! Why? Who is the only One who is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient? Right! God, the One who created all!

Selah.

With that in mind, I want you to grow and think like the Berean Jews in Acts:

 

Acts 17:11
Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

 

That’s right! Don’t automatically put your mind in obedience-gear by accepting just any teaching you may hear from just anyone (even your own pastor) and do not treat it as gospel when it is not.

Selah (Pause, reflect, meditate, think.)

Most people are not equipped to die today! We Christians have proven Scriptures (very numerous Scriptures) regarding our rights to:

• long life
• peace with God
• peace in the Church
• love
• peace in our thoughts
• health
• prosperity
• forgiveness
• godly relationships
• mercy
• security
• and more

 

Sadly and truly even a lot (if not most) Christians do not attain and retain what Christ Jesus has already done for us…

Selah.

CASE IN POINT:
Have you ever had someone say to you: “You weren’t ready.”? I have. And you know what? As I am a mature daughter of God I know that is one of the stupidest statements ever made! These are falsely caring words that may help a person choose eternal separation from the One who loves him most…  Encouraging anyone that is not their fault they are not right with God is a curse. And just what happens to people who put God off and ‘suddenly’ die in their sins because they were not ready?! Hell! Eternal separation from God is never, never acceptable to Him: Let’s look at 2 Peter 3:9:

 

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

 

People perish to the fiery lake of burning sulfur because they hate God; they don’t want to know Him, love Him, worship Him. And He will not let that pass!

Selah!

 

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.  For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

 

Amazingly, recently I briefly talked with a woman at my church I did not know; my church in which the pastor does not compromise the Bible. My church is a true part of the Church: not a lukewarm, dying, false, or dead church. And yet in our short conversation as I told her my joy and blessing of not dying in my twenties and not going to Hell where I deserved to go, this is what she said: “You weren’t ready.”
This woman was older than I am and should have known far better…

Selah.

I truly wonder at her and doubt her beliefs. Let me ask you: how much does she mourn, weep, and wail over loved ones outside the love of God; refusing Him as I did once upon a time? How often does she pray for those (and that is including people she doesn’t know) to come to Christ, have that blessed relationship with God and man, and know they are forgiven, healed, and on the right path to God’s heavenly home?

 

Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

 

How often? Sure makes me wonder how concerned she is about people going to Hell? And yet, she was very social…

Selah.

HERE’S THE FINAL PROCLAMATION OF THIS ARTICLE:
You can’t possibly dare to put off God. As anyone outside His covenant could die at any time, they need to shift and decide to be prepared for life after death: life after death then spiritual death – the lake of fire. Life after death then spiritual eternal life… Heaven!
My prayer for any of you who read this and isn’t ready to shake the stupidity out of your head, your soul, your spirit: shake forever off the lies of Satan, his demonic realm, his people AND those who truly may be children of God. I rightly urge you to stop being a liar and love the God you know exists!

 

 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS JOY STORY:

 

 

Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

 

Proverbs 28:14
Blessed is the one who always trembles before God, but whoever hardens their heart falls into trouble.

 

Ephesians 4:17-24
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.  Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.  You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.