TUESDAY March 4th
We are turning to another use of the word prepare in the word of God today and it is from John 14, and we will read verses 1 through to 6.
‘“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’
I have chosen to look at this immediately after the verse from Amos 4 ‘Prepare to meet your God’, for we have a wonderful promise contained in these verses that tells us that Jesus is preparing a home in heaven for all those who have responded by faith and made sure that they have prepared for their appointment to meet God.
Proper preparation gives the best results! For those who fail to prepare in this life the consequences for them when they meet with God will be devastating, and the lack of preparation will mean that when that moment arrives it will be too late, but for those of us who have come to faith and entered into a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ the future is amazing, for Jesus is preparing something that is spectacular and out of this world for each one of us, and what is even more special that after standing before God, and remember it will not be through any merit of our own, but because of the cleansing power of the precious blood of Jesus, we will enter into his eternal presence, we will spend eternity with our God and with our Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ . . . and yes with each other so we better make sure we are getting on with each other now!
Now, many consider all of this to be pie in the sky, wishful thinking, often referred to as a crutch to get us limping through this life, but to us who have come to believe and to respond by faith we have an inner assurance, the witness of the Holy Spirit that our hope is an eternal hope, and as Jesus is preparing heaven for us, then we wait with anticipation, looking for that blessed hope, the appearing of our wonderful Saviour and Lord.
As you read this devotion do you have the assurance of salvation, have you made yourself right with God, do you know with confidence in your heart that at this moment in time there is a place being prepared for you in heaven. You can have the assurance, and you can know this hope by giving your life over to the Lord Jesus Christ.