Watching & Ready
“Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning” (Mark 13:35).
Writing yesterday’s calendar page made me think of an incident in my own life, when I wasn’t ready for the return of the owners of the house I was staying in.
It was one winter before I was married and I was working temporarily in Toronto and staying with a family that I knew well. They were away on vacation in Florida and had given me a return day. With this date in mind I let some things go, like doing the dishes and taking out the trash and sweeping the floor. Then one morning I woke up to find that they had returned a day early. I was embarrassed and apologized, but in the end it was no big deal.
However, those who are not ready for the coming of Christ will be forever lost. “When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and He shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are” (Luke 13:25). How important it is to be saved and ready!
