Stay Awake!

 “Stay awake therefore! You can not know the day your Lord is coming!" Matthew 24:42

I am imagining myself as a servant in a household. When the master is on vacation, would I be relaxed and not very diligent with my duties? If I was an employee and my boss was out on a series of meetings, would I join in the noise in the office, the horse play and loud bantering? In Matthew 24, Jesus warns against not being prepared for the day He comes again. Like the master of the household or the boss, Jesus will come when we least expect Him! It is best to be always prepared! 

We do not need to wait for His second coming with all the bells and whistles! Because if it is not the Lord's coming, death can easily come like a thief in the night! 

Can you imagine what happened when the Titanic was sinking and all was chaos, people scrambling to find life jackets, get into lifeboats, and frantically looking for loved ones? John Harper, a Scottish Baptist preacher, was one of those on the ship. After he secured a space for his sister and daughter on a lifeboat, he gave his life jacket to a man who was drowning. There, in the precious time he had left, he witnessed to the man about Jesus, urging him to believe, before succumbing to the frigid water and drowning. 

Five years later, when the survivors of that horrible accident got together, Aquilla Webb stood up and announced, “I was John Harper’s last convert.” We can see that John Harper was such a diligent and faithful servant up to the very end!