IfJesusComesToday

If Jesus Comes Today Would You Be Ready?

If Jesus Comes Today, Will You Be Ready Or Will You Be Following After The Flesh Of The World? I Would Rather Be Filled With Jesus And Be Acceptable Unto Him.

There is some scripture mentioned in the Book of Hebrews that says a lot about people who do not fellowship and worship.

HEB 10:23-29 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

There was a time when I considered other things more important than to assemble myself with other Christians. It took on a new darkness for me and I wasn’t even aware of it, for I thought as long as I believed in God and had humbled myself unto Jesus and received Him into my heart once, I was all right. The Lord showed me something different when I went from a vibrant young hard working person into someone who was fast growing older and in my early fifties. Even in my mid to late thirties I had a tendency to have high blood pressure as the strain of running a business was starting to take a toll with long hours passing and hypertension slowly taking over. When I wasn’t working, I was playing or traveling, thinking these things were the distraction I needed to keep things balanced in my life and to keep me healthy. It became far from the truth as I had been taught better things in my younger years. However, prayer had been answered for I knew that family members were praying people and later I just knew the Lord answered their prayers for the Holy Spirit started to draw me back to the Bible and to the good things of God in my wonderful Savior Jesus.

I was in poor health at the time, with high blood pressure and terrible headaches. In the winter time it would seem that I had more colds and tendencies to have flu like symptoms more than I should have had, for it would seem that I would get over one thing and another would start. The Holy Spirit started working on me in January 1989. Work was slow at this particular time and I had a lot of time on my hands. At this time I was obedient to do certain things and I started to let the Word of God back into my life. It was the greatest experience that I can ever describe as I let Jesus back into my heart. I later saw in the book of Revelation that the church at Ephesus had lost their first love and Jesus was warning them through the Apostle John’s letter to this church. This letter showed me that I had lost my first love when I let the zeal and joy of Jesus be overtaken by the things of the world too many years earlier. Jesus said for this church to repent or He would strike their names out of the Book of Life. With this scripture in mind and in the book of Hebrews 10:23-29 that is used to start this writing, these things would show my mind and heart the true love of God that I am supposed to take into my heart to keep me obedient unto my wonderful God and Savior Jesus.

At this moment I thank God that He did come unto me again and touched my heart. In obedience I did come back to Him and let Him come into my heart more than in the beginning when I first humbled myself and asked Jesus to forgive me and I had invited Jesus into my heart in 1960. Just as there was Spiritual healing and physical healing for me then, there was also spiritual healing and physical healing for me in 1989. As I kept growing in the Lord, His Power came upon me as I had felt Him in the beginning and it would seem that it was even greater, because for several months I felt an indescribable Power within and surrounding me with even health as I was taking Jesus into my heart more. I found throughout the year that I felt much better, not having the severe headaches any more and I didn’t get sick for over twelve years. I felt the Lord deep within and as the months past I had a deep passion for the Lord Jesus as I could not get enough of Him. I felt that I had neglected Him for so long that I tried my best to learn of Him and His Love with long hours of seeking Him in humbleness and in prayer. As I was learning, I was writing and I wrote little booklets to give to people. I also started writing poems to give to people.

In the spring of 1995 there was a drawing force within me to come to Mooncrest Baptist Church. I had to be obedient and I came. I have been here for ten years now and I am continuing to grow in the Lord. All I want and need is to continue to grow as I let the Holy Spirit of truth bring Jesus into my heart in a continual way so that just like the ten wise virgins, the oil of the Lord does not run out in my Spiritual life. The only way we are going to prosper in the Lord is to let Jesus come into each of our hearts more and let the world be washed out of our lives completely. The world will remain in people’s lives if they are not close to the Lord and let His Love come in to show them that they must come and worship Him and not only have fellowship with Him, but that they must have Godly fellowship and Godly love with one another.

The Lord has been so good to me and I have always depended upon Him ever since He gave me healing when I was sixteen years old. For He came to me in my darkest hour and healed me of cancer fifty years ago when there was no hope and the medical people gave up on me and sent me home to die. I thank God for people who have prayed for me at that time and for people who pray for me at this time in my life, for I know that if people will believe that God can and will answer prayer all things are possible. I am living proof of this.

I urge all people that have Jesus in their heart, to continue to seek Him in humbleness and prayer. I urge all to let His Word rule their lives as they love their God and their neighbor. God will perform a miracle in all lives who want Jesus more than they want their lives. I urge all people to keep their fellowship with the Lord strong and pure as Jesus was pure and was well pleasing unto His Father. We need to be pleasing unto our Wonderful and Holy God so that we are acceptable unto Him, for I know that without pleasing God, we are nothing in His Kingdom. His Word says this all through the Old and New Testaments.

By Starre Steinmetz