As most of you would probably never guess, I am scared to death of heights! Yet in the picture above, there I sit peacefully relaxing on the ledge a couple hundred feet above the forest. How can I do that, you might ask?? It’s because from up top, I can’t see the danger, and that actually I’m not sitting on a solid rock mass, but rather a precarious ledge that is out there all by its self. It doesn’t seem like anything to be that worried about.

Later as I was looking over my picture collection, it made me think of how similar that experience is to what is happening in our world. God has given us a map and a picture album, you could say...showing us our position in the world and what is to take place as the time draws near for His second coming. "Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass [see road map and picture album Matthew 24 & Luke 21], know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand." Luke 21:29-31

However, despite what God has given us in His Word to help us prepare, we continue to play on the edge of the precipice...naive so it seems, to the danger below. "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Prov 14:12

As I’ve been contemplating my life, the times in which we live, and the calling that Christ has given each of us to a more full surrender to Him, I’m excited and scared at the same time. For it is very evident that we are living not just in the last days, but in the last seconds of earth’s history. We are on the edge of eternity! Very soon, we will either be sealed for eternal life or sealed for eternal death. The choice is up to us...

If you are on a ship that is sinking, you conduct your life a little differently than if you are sailing in smooth waters, don’t you? There is just a bit more urgency to your actions. As one of my favorite speakers figuratively puts it, "You don’t worry about making the bed anymore, or dusting the shelves. You don’t worry about soaking up a tan in the sun, you don’t worry about arranging your life with the latest gadgets or fashions. You don’t worry about putting more gold in your safe. No! All that is meaningless...your entire world is soon to be buried in a flood of water. And any gold or savings you possess will soon be at the bottom of the ocean. Your only worry is to find a life-jacket and get on a life-raft...and help others do the same!!!!" Interesting how a simple change in circumstance can change one’s priorities sooo drastically, huh?!

The scary thing about this illustration though is that it’s not just a figure of our imagination. It is real...and it’s beginning to take place right now in this world and in our lives! And yet, most people have a deaf ear to the warning signs all around, and even if they do hear them...they aren’t taking them seriously! They are going on with life as usual...as if they'll be around many more years to come.

I can understand the reluctance to believe and act, for I’ve struggled with it myself most of my life. No one wants to rock the boat, right! No one wants to be thought of as a "fanatic" or as "weird" by yelling "Wake up! Watch out! Go get a life-jacket! Get prepared!!" After all, every other catastrophe that has hit our ship has always turned out ok before. Surely this wouldn’t be the time that our safe, solid, unsinkable ship would go down.

But think...and think again!

Just as the "unsinkable Titanic" from long ago went to it’s watery grave, so our world and most of the masses are preparing to do the same. Is it any accident that our world is at war, that natural disasters are occurring with increasing frequency and severity, and that our nation is on the brink of an economic collapse ?? No, it’s no accident...Jesus is preparing to come!!

At the recent GYC in Minneapolis, there was a variety of wonderful inspiring messages. But I have to point you to one series that stands out above most of the rest. Someone is daring to rock the boat! Someone is daring to cry, "The ship is sinking!! Grab life-jackets, start launching life rafts!" These seminars are powerful...and if you want to be prepared for what is soon to come, I beg you (my family, friends and recreational blog readers) to listen and be motivated to action like never before!! I suggest we too may want to get off our "ledge" before it breaks off (whatever that ledge may be) and start grabbing life-vests...and spending whatever assets we do have to help others get life-vests.

There's one difficult part to this action!! It will cost us all we have and all we are...

But the reward will be eternal life!!!!

*For more exciting reading on what is happening RIGHT NOW in earth’s history, check out the book Maranatha chapter 251 & 252. I have many more exciting thoughts to share as God has been speaking to my heart and motivating me to follow Him down deeper paths of surrender. But for now....one thought at a time!