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Luke
  
31"In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.32Remember Lot’s wife.33Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it."


Are you prepared for the coming of Christ? In this corrupt world, there is a choice of the called that overcame their lusts by the Holy Spirit. They work, build, and plant as others, but are waiting for their Lord at every moment. Marriage and work are not a sin, but he who marries and works without Christ is a reprobate sinner. The Lord is the first and the last in our life. He is our aim and hope. This principle will appear openly at his coming, for his own will come to him joyfully, while the unjust unbelievers will ask for protection from his shining light, but they will not find it. Some of them will try, at the last moment, to save their relatives and get their valuables, not certainly knowing what may occur after the coming of Christ. This is why Christ commands us to observe the maxim: Leave everything and meet with God. Do not turn back like Lot’s wife who longed for her people and her enjoyment, and became frozen in her yearning after earthly material things, but forget everything and come to your Lord. Will you keep yourself, at that moment, out of sight until you have quickly prepared yourself more properly to meet Christ, and then you waste away in the fiery storm condemnation? Or will you rise in faith and feel assured in the fire, as the three courageous men walked in the fiery furnace in Iraq at the time of Nebuchadnezzar? As such you will live trusting in Christ’s blood and Holy Spirit, for God’s life in us is not woven of gold, material, and flesh, but with the Spirit, life, and light. So abide in Christ and he in you, and then you will deny yourself, and gain from now on your Lord who is coming to this world.