Affairs Of This Life...

It's so easy to get caught up in our own affairs (lives, not adultery). I know for us, it's easy to get caught up in the day being busy trying to keep the house clean, the kids fed and clean and happy. All the duties us stay at home Momma's have. I am guilty as charged when it comes to getting to busy and forgetting there is another world out there. We try to make each other happy. We try to make things better. I know even for me, when I am able to spend some good time alone w/ the Lord, it's still easy to forget about the rest of the world until we are reminded that God has a bigger plan. We go through seasons in our lives. We are reminded of the times we live in by the events, disasters, chaos, violence and all this hoopla w/ Obama! I know it's all for a reason and it all has to happen. These are all just signs of the end...end times. Oh and how close we are. It's easy to forget if we don't have our eyes fixed on Jesus and that this home, this place is not our permanent home. This is just temporary. I find it so hard to try to find the balance of keeping a clean home and all grounded all well w/ just us and then knowing that the rapture or death could come at any second. It's easy to get caught up with our own desires, sometimes selfish I'm sure. I'm sure the Devil wouldn't have any part in this, huh? It's easy to get caught up in the American dream. We all want to have a good life. We all want that pretty house, family, good life...but, we aren't going to be here forever. That is reality and it's a hard one to swallow. This is where faith and trust comes in! We have to stay tuned in to the Holy Spirit and what the Lord is telling us. Right now just in our last church service the Word came forth from interpretation of tongues and it was that the harvest is ready!!! I am so mind blown...I missed that service due to kids being sick, but WHOA! I know the time is near, but just how near!? Are we really really ready to go? If the rapture were to happen right now? Would I go? Would you go? There is so much more to it than just being baptized in Jesus' name and being filled w/ the Holy Ghost. We have an inner man that needs disciplined daily! Oh help us, Lord! The Devil tries to attack us blind sided all the time! We can't let bitterness seep in, forgive quickly, be not offended! There is so much to be on guard for. I don't really know where this is going. But, I do know we are living in a crucial hour and we have to make every effort to reach the lost and make each moment count for something...not just is my house clean enough...I have to do this or that! BALANCE~~~there is always going to be this or that. We have to prioritize what is most important. We have to pray w/out ceasing. We have to stay ready and full of the holy ghost. Mercy Lord, help us!! Eternity is forever...we can't even fathom that! Each and EVERY single soul that has ever been born has a destiny. Each and every person has a choice to make. God has given us all free will to choose His way or rebel and chose the Devil. God's way will lead to heaven, which few will enter. And the Devil's way leads to hell, and many will enter there. I am so heart sickened when I think about my family and friends, anyone for that matter who does not know the truth and are not saved. To think that anyone would spend eternity in Hell. You can not even breathe in Hell! Burning, gnashing of teeth, torments for eternity! Who would really choose that over gates of pearl and streets of Gold...no mourning, no weeping, no pain, no sorrow...for eternity. This life as we know it is just a vapor...literally! I try not take take time for granted and I am often pressed for time. I am continually reminding myself how great our family is and loving them the best that I can because we may not be here tomorrow! I still feel like we should dream and we should strive be better wives, mothers, sisters and friends. One day to the Lord is a thousand years as to one day for him. We know He is coming soon and we should be ready and help spread the Word and do our part to save the lost and still live while we are here. It sounds like a hard task I know and one I am still trying to balance!