The definition of “preparation” is “the action or process of making something ready for use or service or of getting ready for some occasion, test, or duty …”

That couldn’t be more accurate in describing what we’re doing on this earth right now!

And you’re probably wondering… how in the world I came up with Preparation H? Isn’t that a brand of hemorrhoid cream?

Yes, to many people it is, but I’m talking about the “preparation” of every human alive or who ever lived on this earth.

We should all know that we’re a part of Preparation H… because we’re all “preparing” to spend eternity in “Heaven or Hell!”

Just like the hemorrhoid cream, we ALL will have either eternal relief or eternal suffering…

Jesus said, “Mat 7:13  “Go in through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is spacious that leads to destruction, and many people are entering by it.
Mat 7:14  How narrow is the gate and how constricted is the road that leads to life, and few are the people who find it!”

Too many people want to believe that there are more ways to get to heaven than accepting Jesus. There are NOT!

This life as we know it now, is simply the “preparation process” for the real purpose God created us. God NEVER creates anything or anyone without a “purpose” in mind for them.

Jesus said, “John 14:6  “I am the way, the truth, and the life!“  “Without me, no one can go to the Father.”

Our purpose as Christians, as Jesus told us in Matthew and Luke, is to, “Your heavenly Father already knows all your needs, and he will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern. “He will give you all you need from day to day if you make the Kingdom of God your primary concern.

What is the “Kingdom of God?” It is the proper royalty, rule (authority) and reign of God in our lives. Yes, we’re to be learning the Kingdom system of doing things while we’re here on this earth.

Before we were “saved,” we were “preparing” for hell…You may say, “I wasn’t preparing for hell…” But, the Word of God says you were. You had little choice.

Eph 2:1  In the past you were dead because you sinned and fought against God.
Eph 2:2  You followed the ways of this world and obeyed the devil. He rules the world, and his spirit has power over everyone who doesn’t obey God.

Proverbs is a book of wisdom, written by Solomon, called the “wisest man who ever lived.” In the very first chapter, he writes, “When a bird sees a trap being set, it stays away. But not these people! They set an ambush for themselves; they booby-trap their own lives”You simpletons!” she cries. “How long will you go on being simpleminded? How long will you mockers relish your mocking? How long will you fools fight the facts?”

“Come here and listen to me! I’ll pour out the spirit of wisdom upon you and make you wise. I called you so often, but you didn’t come. I reached out to you, but you paid no attention. You ignored my advice and rejected the correction I offered.” “For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.” “They rejected my advice and paid no attention when I corrected them. That is why they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way. They must experience the full terror of the path they have chosen.”

“For they are simpletons who turn away from me–to death. They are fools, and their own complacency will destroy them.” Proverbs 1:32

Doing nothing with Jesus, is “preparing” to die forever! Turning away from the only deliverer is “preparing” for eternal separation and death.

For a person who has never accepted Jesus into their heart and life… do it now! Don’t live in death sentence and slavery another day!

Jesus loves you, just the way you are… messed up and a slave to the devil. He paid the price to deliver you though.

For the Christian who is striving more, for the things of this life, than they are the Kingdom of God; live according to His royalty, His rule (authority) and reign in your life.

Prepare and keep preparing, because the day WILL be here soon, when we’ll all step into the purpose God has for us in eternity! His purpose and destination for us all, was NOT hell!

You choose.

This past Saturday evening, I watched my son exchange vows with his bride. Now, I really understand two important things about our relationship with Jesus…

We know He is coming back again for His bride. Who is she really?

When I saw and read some comments about how my son and his bride are “best friends” and how much they love each other, it dawned on me… that’s’ the relationship He’s looking for with us.

He always has wanted the relationship to be “best friends and first love.” (Not claiming to be his best friend, like the world claims, but really being “His best friend”… and knowing that “He is our best friend.”)

Of course He is our Lord, but the relationship He wants, is the closeness and nearness of “best friends.”

My son in law gave a “best friend speech” at my son’s wedding reception, in which he basically described, “The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation …”

My son found that “best friend” and love in his new wife. She looks at him, like there’s no other person in the room… When he is not near, she looks for him till she finds him.

Jesus said, “I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you “friends,” because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.”

He doesn’t want to keep secrets from us and He doesn’t want us to try and keep secrets from Him. He wants His “bride,” with no fears and no worries, knowing that the best friend you have, will NEVER let you down.

Maybe this is why God hates divorce so vehemently. It’s an earthly parallel of Jesus and the Bride of Christ. When you say a person is your “best friend and love,” you have proclaimed an everlasting bond of commitment to a relationship of love and friendship. Is there anything stronger? Yes, when Jesus is the foundation of that relationship between a man and woman… NOTHING can break it.

The Apostle Paul said, “Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it, so that he might make it holy by cleansing it, washing it with water and the word, and might present the church to himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault.

“Best friends love” never hides secrets from each other.

There’s a cleansing and pure love from being “best friends” with Jesus. He keeps the relationship clean by “washing us with water (His Holy Spirit) and the Word.

When you have that “best friend” relationship, unbroken… by your choice as well as His… you will be without spot, wrinkle (worries and cares of this life) holy and without fault. And you know that when someone attacks you, you needn’t stress… your best friend will have your back!

If two young people can illustrate such a picture of their relationship with each other, how much more is God Himself wanting our “best friend love” relationship forever?

We are the Bride He’s coming back for…

Is He your love and “best friend?”

A team of 6 Americans, a Briton, a German and 2 Afghan interpreters who traveled around Afghanistan with a portable clinic were murdered execution style in Afghanistan. Read it again, in case you missed the point of “the reason” the Taliban felt it necessary to KILL these people. Think about it… They helped people! Murdered because they “loved and cared” enough to help these Afghani people.

They traveled around helping people! They “served” others by helping to heal them! This is what Christians do!

This is part of who we are, as followers of the God who made all things. But people who believe there are “other” ways to know God and live for God, have not believed the “love of the truth.”

Sadly, it’s the knowledge that every Christian has about the “One Way” to know God and have eternal life, that endangers our physical bodies in parts of the world, where we can’t compromise this truth.

We can’t even compromise this truth where there is little danger of being killed.

What this world calls “tolerance” is really “compromise.” And a “compromise” with truth, is a lie.

A Christian group that provided medical care to remote regions of developing countries. Although robbery had been suspected as a motive for the crime, a Taliban spokesman proudly claimed credit on behalf of his organization for the murders.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FXDAaiT6os]“These Christian missionaries were exercising their constitutional rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion, but apparently the Constitution carries little weight in Dearborn, MI, where the Muslim population seems to dominate the political apparatus,” said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center.