“Be
on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come.” - Mark 13:33
NIV
“Attention
Health 12 students!” As I heard the announcement through the speaker, my heart
stopped. I pushed through the people standing by as I made my way towards the
door. Every senior knows that an announcement like that could only mean one
thing at this time of the school year: Senior Survival! From the beginning of
the year the senior class receives training in how to survive in the wilderness
as part of the Health 12 requirements. We learn how to start a fire with
objects found in nature, how to make a shelter, and how to get pure water—along
with a ton of other survival techniques.
At any time the teacher will announce the campout, and we have to be
prepared to leave in less than 10 minutes.
The
point is that we needed to be ready with all our stuff packed up, and I wasn’t.
I had procrastinated so much with getting my stuff ready, and now I was not
going to make it in only 10 minutes! I saw some of my friends running towards
the door too, but others seemed calm and without any worries. The speaker went
again: “Enjoy your lunch!” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. My heart
started beating normally again. It was only a false alarm; it wasn’t the real
senior survival announcement! Now I could have another chance to get ready, and
this time I was not going to wait until the last minute.
The
Senior Survival preparation made me think of training for my eternal survival. I
don’t know when Jesus will come, so I want to be ready now and at every moment.
I need to have packed up everything that I want to take with me: a good and
Jesus-like character, souls won for Him, and talents He gave me multiplied.
Sometimes I don’t talk in a nice way or I forget to have my devotions, but He
gives me a new opportunity. Now I don’t want to waste it and wait until the
last moment to get ready.
~ Mildred Rhys
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