Keeping It In Order

I remember a long, long time ago... probably 25 or 30 years ago, a man in my church was asked, "If you were mowing your lawn, and an angel in disguise came up and told you the Lord would return tomorrow, what would you do?" The man said, "I guess I'd finish mowing my lawn."

I remembered that. Yes, living in the last days is about not only getting your life in order, it's about keeping it in order. If we should be doing something other than mowing our lawn, let's put the mower up and get to it. Prioritize. God has nothing against us taking care of our personal affairs, as long as we have property prioritized them. The Kingdom comes first.

God told Haggai the prophet that Israel was more concerned with their homes than with HIS house, which lay in ruins. God's complaint wasn't that the people were mowing their lawns, but that they'd lost their sense of priority.

Let's get our house in order and then keep it in order, so that when the time comes, we leave no ends untied.