THE VISION
This message is about more than just preparing for the end of life.
It’s about living each day with greater purpose, deeper faith, and a clearer understanding of what truly matters so that the legacy we leave is filled with real meaning.
The hope is that every reader will leave encouraged to pursue a life that reflects God’s love, impacts others, and prepares their heart for eternity.=
ARE YOU READY?
The vision of Are You Ready?, through its website, clothing, books, and music, is to promote a lifestyle based on Jesus’ command to us in Luke 12:40:
“Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
Jesus is calling us to live a life of readiness in Him, moment by moment and day by day.
If we do as He commands, then when we are called home, the moment-by-moment dots of our lives will have been connected in a way so that our divine and unique purpose will have been lived out for His honor and His glory—and we will have left a life full of real meaning and eternal value.
RU E?
We face the question of readiness daily in our lives, through decisions great and small.
The concept of readiness is not just relevant to the surfer being towed into a 50-foot wave in Hawaii or the snowboarder free-flying off a 1,000-foot precipice. It applies to almost every decision we make.
Whether one is getting ready to walk down the aisle for a lifetime marriage commitment, about to enter the doctor’s office to hear lab test results, or preparing to take a math test, we ask ourselves:
“Am I ready?”
Where the consequences of an action are minimal and the probability of failure low, little preparation may be necessary. But for the largest decisions of our lives, just the opposite is true.
We must ask ourselves:
How prepared are we to answer the most important question we will ever have to answer?
“Am I ready to meet and stand before the One who made me—Jesus Christ?”
Are You Ready? exists to help believers develop a deeper understanding of who Jesus is to them personally and how, by pouring Jesus through the matrix of their lives moment by moment and day by day, they can live the life God intended for them.
As believers, our choice can be to slide in “safe at home,” or we can choose to try to fulfill our divine purpose.
Our hope is that a believer’s faith, trust, and hope in Jesus Christ will be deepened, while those who do not yet know or embrace Jesus will be encouraged to consider the most important questions of their lives—and ultimately discover Jesus Christ as their True North.
READY, HERE AND NOW
Our hope is in something far greater than words can really ever convey.
While we are here seeking to live meaningful lives with our eyes fixed on Jesus, we sustain one another through the inevitable trials of life by our encouragement to one another of the Hope we hold fast to and the gentle reminder:
It is not who we are, but Whose we are.
This world is coming at us at a faster and faster pace. We are forced to absorb and respond to more and more information, and keeping up with all of it can be mentally and physically exhausting.
We still have, every day, an opportunity to step off the treadmill and step aside with Jesus on a quiet path and feel His presence and His storm-calming ways.
We can take the time to respond as Jesus Himself would in the major decisions of our lives and in all the little details as well. We can look to Him so that we can find and experience the peace which passes all understanding.
Out of order or in His perfect order—the choice is
as much ours today as it was 2,000 years ago.
We need not fear this world.
We need not be overwhelmed by this world, for we are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ who strengthens us.
We are here and now, living according to His perfect timing. With this time we have been given, let us expend that time wisely through all the activities and different phases of our lives in a way that continuously finds us ready at any moment to meet and embrace our King.
“. . . in this world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer as I have overcome the world . . .”