I Cor 15:52

“ in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.”

I Thess 5:2

“you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.”

The other night I was washing dishes and the girls were playing hide and go seek in the house.  Granted it is a small house and there are not very many places to hide so the rounds go pretty fast.  Nevertheless, they were having a great time, but the words, "Ready or Not Here I Come!" rang through my mind over and over.  Now these are words that I had heard since I was a kid, but tonight they had new meaning.

I heard them as if Jesus were saying them to me.  I don’t mean to be morbid.  Perhaps that was because I had tempted death with the car accident a few weeks ago, or maybe it was that I have been looking a lot at hope and heaven with the studying I am doing to prepare for Camp, but as those words rang through my head, I knew in my mind and my heart that I am ready for Jesus to come.  On a certain level, I want Jesus to come.  In my brain I need Jesus to return.  But if I am being really honest, there lies a small part of my heart that probably does not want Jesus to return RIGHT NOW.  Why?  I do have visions of seeing the girls graduate High School, see what they do in college, I yearn to walk them down the aisle at their wedding, feeling the water around my waist when they are baptized.  I mean I want Jesus to come, but when I am ready for him to come.  These two passages tell us that no one knows when Jesus will return and we will all be surprised by when it will happen.

The bottom line is that I want what I want, BUT I am praying for the desires of my heart to be what God wants. 

I do know that when Jesus comes, it will be the right time. 

Jesus will say, "Ready or Not Here I Come!"  What a day that will be!