I remember my party days. I wasn't going to let anything get in the way of my Friday nights, and Saturday nights, and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights as well. Let's be honest, I was a party animal in the worst way. I couldn't wait to get to the next club, mainly karaoke. I figured out in advance how much sleep I would get before work the next day. Then I figured I could make it through the next day well enough on that amount of sleep. I had to because I was NOT going to stop partying.
Fast forward to today and I look back on all of that and realize how much God had my back. I realize that I drove drunk many, many times before I was finally arrested. That still didn't do it for me because I was arrested again a year later for the same thing! Man was I hard-headed! Thank God I was never arrested when I was going back and forth to the drug house to get more drugs to get my "high" on. Imagine getting caught carrying all that back to the house!
During that time I often felt the urge to go to church. But I rarely did because I didn't want people to smell the alcohol or drugs on me. I used to say, "As soon as I'm done partying Lord, I'll be there." Everything was more important than serving the God who could set me free if I just asked Him. I must have been out of my mind! Actually I didn't know what i didn't know. God was using me as a motivational speaker during those times, and now I realize that everything I was saying was based on Biblical principles! You mean to tell me I was preaching without putting God in it? I was a nice person but I was not respecting God at all. I convinced myself that if I was nice enough and helped enough people I didn't necessarily need God. If I died God would recognize all the people I helped and He'd let me into heaven. After all, He's not that mean right?
Well God said in His word that He doesn't want to lose ANY of His children. "The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people's conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9 AMP)God is "extraordinarily patient" with us but there will come a time when Jesus will return for His church. We just don't know when that will be. No one knows when it will be so we should be vigilant and ready. The Bible says, "You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.” (Luke 12:40 NIV)
Come to Jesus now! Don't wait until you're "finished partying and having fun". Partying is limited to your short life here on earth. But eternity is forever. Where will you spend your eternity? With Jesus or the devil? We have to get our lives right today, not keep on partying as long as we can because we just don't know when He's coming back. He may come back when you're in the middle of your mess. What will you tell Jesus then? Nothing. Because by then, it will be too late! You won't have time!
“It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed." (Luke 17:28-30 NIV)
God bless you!
Robert T Sells
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About the author: Robert T. Sells (aka The Anointed Poet) is the co-owner, with his wife Marlas, of Words of Inspiration Ministries in Merrillville, Indiana. He is known for his gift of prose and has been spreading the message of the Gospel through poetry and song around the country. Sells is also the author of several books in the Words of Inspiration poetry series and a Christian spoken word CD. For more information about his ministry or to purchase products and/or services, visit his website at www.robertsellsonline.com.
