Midweek Minute: It's Happening!

Welcome to the Midweek Minute

Where I talk about the here and now...

(Song currently playing on my Spotify: Gotta Get To Jesus by the Collingsworth Family)

Today marks the beginning of a new kind of post you can expect from me.

I think I have mentioned before that my posts are set up weeks ahead of time. I generally work on blog posts a couple times a month and make sure I am set up for a few weeks. However, there have been times when things happen in "real time" that have made me think about how I could share current events without disrupting what I already have set up. Thus...the Midweek Minute. It won't be on any particular day, just when I want to share something that is happening in "real time" with you!

It's 3:33am and I have been up since two. I have been having some health issues and possibly I will share a little about that in the future. For now...I covet your prayers. I have been getting very little sleep in the past few weeks. At first, it was so frustrating to wake up and not be able to go back to sleep. However, in the past week or two, I have come to appreciate and enjoy these precious moments in the middle of the night when my family is sleeping peacefully to enjoy time with my Abba.

Tonight was no different, but it was the reason that I woke up that was different....

I had the most AMAZING dream. 

When I say amazing, I mean.....WOW....so...incredibly....amazing.

I dreamt that I was driving out in the country on a road that led to where I grew up....I knew exactly where I was....I had just passed a little town and was headed to some crazy curves. The same curves that my precious Savior used to get ahold of my wayward heart when I was 18. 

In my dream, as I drove along, the outside of my periferal vision started to darken while the horizon started getting brighter and brighter....and I thought:

It's happening!!! It's really happening!

Right here! Right now!

 Jesus is COMING!!!

As I drove on the road excitedly watching the horizon and waiting for my Savior to step down out of Heaven, I realized that it had to be a dream because the Bible says that:

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:52 

So I knew, with sadness, that the slow-mo dream I was having was just that...a dream. I tried to will the dream to continue in hopes I might glimpse Jesus' face....

As I woke up, my eyes went to my bedroom window that was open....with sadness, I realized I was still in my bed....staring out the window at the sky.....

As I painfully got up to use the bathroom, the Lord so sweetly brought something to my heart and that is what I want to share with you the most:

As I thought about my dream, I realized it was like when you sit at a play....everything is busy, the lights are bright and people are busy talking to their neighbor about different things.....some people are excited about what they know is going to happen in the play, they are eager to see the beginning of a night that will change everything. Some people were dragged there by their friend or family and could care less. Maybe they are playing on their cell phone or staring at the ceiling. Some people know what the play is about and they think that it probably won't happen the way the billplay says and are bored by what is happening in front of them.

But then....the house lights go down in the room...the ones who have been eagerly anticipating this play hush and stare with eagerness at the stage. The others possibly retreat to the darkness of the room to continue playing on their phones or finish their conversations.

As the stage lights slowly go up lighting center stage.....everyone turns in their seat, looking to the stage and hushes...

With anticipation and possibly a holding of breath, the crowd watches as the curtain seems to slowly, ever so slowly rise and you watch with anticipation to see the star of the play come out to the stage....

The Lord showed me that just like in that play, we are living in that last stage of waiting for the opening act to start....

Up till now, the world has lived a crazy chaotic existance....it's been busy and boisterous, very much ignoring what is about to happen down in front....people have heard it all before, they don't believe it will happen in their lifetime...

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Luke 17:26-27

The darkness and wickedness of this world is just like the house lights going down....it's closing down around us. People are allowing themselves to be decieved into believing that it's ok to retreat into that darkness and finish what they want to do before the stage lights go up....as Christians it could even be easy to be discrouraged by the attitudes and laziness of people around us as they continue to be self-centered and focused on the lies the enemy has told them that make them feel better about their sin.....

However, as the stage light slowly go up on, focusing on what is going to happen, we need to be ready.....we need to keep our focus on the center stage. What is about to happen is just the beginning of an amazing life that will last for all of eternity! We don't want to miss out!!!

When the curtain rises and Jesus steps out on those beautiful clouds to start the most important Opening Act for the rest of eternity, we HAVE to be ready for Him!

We have to be expecting Him! We can't continue being distracted by our neighbors, talking about trivial things that have nothing to do with Eternity. We need to keep our focus on Him.

My friends....time is running out....the curtain will be going up soon.

And unlike my dream, it won't happen in slow motion. It will be fast:

For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Matthew 24:27

I don't know who you are. I don't know where you stand spiritually....but I'm praying that as you read this, you will double check...make sure you are ready for His Soon Return. Don't wait, I beg you!

Your eterniy is going to consist of one of two outcomes: Heaven or Hell.

It's your choice.

If you haven't made the decision to make Heaven your eternal Home, don't wait.....please....

35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.   Matthew 24:35-42