A year ago, I got a distress call from mum that a close uncle of mine had died of heart attack. I was of course, a little shaken by the whole news and was rather speechless looking blankly at my office PC. Tears rolled down my cheeks as I put down the phone. This uncle of mine, he was sportsman, yeap, he was a fit man, and he had just turned 60 years of age. It grows to show how frail life can be. Yeap, it is. 

Well, it reminds me of one of the article I had written not long ago, yeap, on “Anticipative Lifestyle”. What if, yeap, what if we are taken away today to meet our Lord, or what of Jesus is to return today? So, how prepared are all of us, I wonder. 

A captivating paragraph quoted by Thomas a Kempis in Eugene Peterson’s “Run With the Horse”:- 

Jesus today has many, who love His heavenly Kingdom, but few who carry His cross; many who yearn for comfort, few who long for distress. Plenty of people He finds to share His banquet, few to share His fast. Every desires to take part in His rejoicing, but few are willing to suffer anything for His sake. There are many that follow Jesus as far as the breaking of bread, few as far as drinking the cup of suffering; many that revere His miracles, few that follows Him in the indignity of His cross.

Matthew 7:13-14, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

Matthew 7:21-23  21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” 22 “Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never know you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!”