Over the last two years, Kristina and I have watched all the squirrels that run around our house and through our trees. From early spring to dark winter nights, these little furry creatures change their appearance. As the weather starts to cool and the days get shorter, the squirrels get fatter! They are eating as much as they can, storing up energy for the winter. It is amazing how the simplest of animals can see what it is coming and prepare for it, yet the most complex of God’s creation, mankind, cannot see what it is coming and will not prepare for it – the judgment day!

Paul writes, “Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed” (2 Thessalonians 1:6-10). 

The day is coming in which Jesus will return and we must give an account of the things that we have done (2 Corinthians 5:10). If the squirrels in our yard waited until snow was on the ground and the food supply was gone to prepare for the winter, they would not survive. The same is true for us, we cannot wait until the last trumpet sounds and the Lord appears to make our lives right with the Lord…it will be too late! Consider the parable Jesus gave in Matthew 25:1-10 and what happened to those that were not prepared, “And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you. Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.”

Today is the day of salvation, tomorrow may be too late!

By: Justin Odom