Get Ready

Joshua 1:2 (TNIV): “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites.”

Get ready. You've heard it a hundred times... Get ready to have a baby...get ready to go to school... get ready for God to answer your prayers... get ready to eat... get ready... get ready...

It seems like so much of our lives are spent getting ready.

Yet so many of us aren't ready when things happen in our lives. We are taken by surprise...totally unaware that an opportunity is upon us. In today's passage, God is telling the Israelites that they need to get ready to go into the land that He is ready to give them. Do you think they were ready for that opportunity? Not really. They hadn't prepared themselves under the leadership of Moses. They grumbled...they doubted...they worried.

So many of us don't prepare ahead of time for things... We don't keep learning...keep developing...keep pushing ourselves to be better... Somewhere along the line, we settle. We get comfortable with the way things are.

Unfortunately when an extraordinary opportunity comes our way we're caught flat-footed. Not ready. Out of position. Sure, we want to get ready for what God is going to give us...but by the time the chance presents itself it is far too late to start getting ready.

Here's my challenge to you today...as you pray...ask God to reveal to you what element of your life you need to get ready...is it your finances? your emotions? your spiritual life? What part of your life needs to prepare for upcoming opportunities? God is ready to give you something more for your life...it's time for us to get ready for it...ahead of time...

See you tomorrow,
Pastor Brian