Apocalypse 22:1-7 / Luke 21:34-36 (2023)
It is a general medical opinion that a lot of diseases like heart-attack, stroke, high-blood pressure and diabetes can be prevented and controlled.
It just requires us to be disciplined in our diet and exercise routines.
But when it comes to preventive measures, we don't usually see the concrete benefits of our vigilance.
Hence we slacken, and we say that another piece of fatty meat or missing another day of exercise won't do much harm.
Or we might even throw caution to the wind and say: let's enjoy now and suffer later.
Yet very often, it is while lying on the hospital bed in pain that we start regretting not taking care of our health and our body.
Similarly neither do we want to spend eternity in regret.
What Jesus is asking of us is to be alert and to be with Him in prayer and to have confidence in what He had promised us.
Jesus had promised us eternity with Him. It is by spending every moment with Jesus in our hearts that we will be prepared for eternity with Him.