Be prepared

The Boy Scout have a motto Be Prepared.

For what?

For anything.

The training that you do in Boy Scouts is meant to help you in life.

Whether it's helping someone who needs immediate first aid, is drowning or some other emergency, you would know how to answer it.

The motto goes beyond that.

It goes into the fact that boy scouts should be good citizens, give happiness to other people and be ready for any struggles they might face.

They are supposed to be prepared for life, live a life going forward with no regrets, doing the best possible.

Are we prepared?

I have a quote on my office door that says…

"Deliberate mediocrity is a sin," – Elton Trueblood.

It came from a book I was reading that said this was how he opened a sermon.

We are not called to do anything just to get by.

We all want to be remembered as a good person, someone who was a good family person, a good friend and someone who helped others.

We can't always be on (We are human) but we can continue to improve.

Faith is the same way, we are all at different levels and need improvement.

We are called to be prepared beyond our own understanding sometimes.

Jesus just spent an entire chapter talking about the ends of the age.

He goes on and talks about the time when after he dies on the cross for everyone's sins, when he would come back.

Rather than knowing when he would come back he tells them this in Mark 13:34…

"It's like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch."

He later goes on further to say you have to continue to keep watch because you never know when the man is going to return.

He's challenging is disciples to live their faith out like they knew Jesus was coming back that moment.

Don't live for your faith tomorrow, live for your faith today.

He ends this section with one word, Watch!

The reason he uses this word is because in Roman time there were four watches during the night, 6-9 p.m., 9-midnight, midnight-3 a.m. and 3-6 a.m.

We need to be on watch.

There is always talk about the end times or when Jesus is coming back.

There are theories and deep theological studies on this.

Jesus could care less when we could guess when he is coming back.

He cares more about how we are living at that moment and there is no way to tell exactly when he is coming back.

Live for today, it has enough worries in itself.

Show your faith, do something bold with it (This does not mean go out on a street corner with a sign that says turn to God or turn to Hell).

It means have faith.

Our first job is to love, love God and love others like ourselves.

How can you do this today?

If Jesus came back today, how would he find you living your life?

Have a great day.