Live as If Christ Was Coming Back Today

"...do not forget this charge to "do business." Beware of an idle, talking, gossiping, sentimental, do-nothing religion. Do not think because your doings cannot justify you, or put away one single sin that therefore it does not matter whether you do anything at all. Away with such a delusion! Cast it behind you as an invention of the devil. ...be a doing Christian."

"...everyone has an open door before him and may, if he will, show forth his Master's praise. Your bodily health and strength, your mental gifts and capacities, your money and your earthly possessions, your rank and position in life, your example and influence with others, your liberty to read the Bible and hear the gospel, your plentiful supply of grace. ... All of these are to be used and employed with a continual reference to the glory of Christ. All these are His gifts. But the Lord Jesus bids you also to do business until He comes back. By that, He means that you are to do His work on earth... ."

"You are to rise and go forth in the morning ready, if need be, to meet Christ at noon. You are to lie down in bed at night ready, if need be, to be awakened by the midnight cry,... You are to keep your spiritual accounts in a state of constant preparation, like one who never knows how soon they may be called for. You are to measure your ways by the measure of Christ's appearing, and to do nothing in which you would not like Jesus to find you doing. This is to be your business until Jesus comes."

"Think, reader, how condemning these words are to thousands of professing Christians! What an utter absence of preparation appears in their daily walk and conversation! How thoroughly unfit they are to meet Christ!"

(The Second Coming of Christ - This section by Dwight L. Moody.)

Are you ready?

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