Friday, Friday, Friday!
For many it is the most wonderful day of the week. Friday! Yahhh! It represents freedom. No longer captive to the will of others, Friday after 5pm represents our time. We go out with friends or have them over. We stay up late or… very, very early. It is a time that we long for from the close of Sunday onward. The mind is focused on preparing for Friday way in advance. The hope of that great day motivates us all week long.
Someday, our spiritual Friday will come. A day when all the care and trouble of this world go away. It will be a day when we don’t have to worry about vain and meaningless drudgery. Sorrow and stress will be gone. It will be a day of rejoicing with friends and loved ones. It will be the best Friday of our life, because it will be the start of the never-ending weekend. Eternity of Freedom from the shackles of this human body and its frailty.
While we prepare for a Friday at the end of the week, are we preparing for the spiritual one?
1 Peter 1:13-16 – Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Preparation for eternity begins in this time we have been given upon the earth. Someday, death will arrive, and its significance will be understood. Will you be ready? The passage above from Peter speaks of conformity to ignorance. What ignorance? The ignorance of a vain and empty life which most of the world follow. Such a life is not in preparation for eternity. The focus is upon the immediate and not the hope of a greater time. God wants your life and behavior to be focused upon holy conduct. What is that?
Mic 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
John 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
That last day in of life upon this earth will be glorious. Will your preparation be in the belief that Jesus is coming that day? Based on that belief will you have been walking in justice and kindness according to the commands of God?
God wants your spiritual Friday to be amazing! You don’t have to be in the dark about how to be prepared. Take up the Bible, spend some time reading about God’s preparation for the great day He has waiting for you. The Bible is His word. You can understand it. Be patient, study it, follow it, and anticipate with great hope the day of Freedom that is coming.