Get Ready Now

On March 11, 2011, a massive 9.0 earthquake and the resulting tsunami wreaked unimaginable destruction on the northeastern coast of Japan. News reports noted that Japan has been the site of the greatest number of earthquakes in any country of the world, and its people have had the most complete and consistent preparation for earthquake survival ever in human history.


A woman who was in an upper-story office was interviewed in the first day following the quake. She recounted that the office trembled, and then began to shake, but she had felt that kind of thing before. The movement, however, did not stop, but increased. Equipment was toppling, the ceiling was caving in, and the woman was unable to stand up. She poignantly commented, "I suddenly realized I had no plan of escape in mind. I did not know what to do at all."

Amazing. In a place where the liklihood of "the big one" is a constant and real threat, that someone would have no personal plan of action is aslmost unimaginable. Yet, for this woman and many others, exactly what to do when the land shook or the waters suddenly rose and brought immediate and total obliteration was not "top of mind." How could it not be? Jesus warned his followers regularly, "The end is coming, and you must be ready. It will come like a thief in the night, at a moment when you least expect it."







Be ready. Be ready! BE READY! Know the plan, and never be caught unaware.






"So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him" (Matthew 24:44).






Myke Merrill