Ecce Homo

In talking about preparedness we must know why or what we are preparing for, and as I have mentioned previously, we are preparing to meet God.  There are basically two ways one meets God, either through death or, eventually, Christ's return.

For a while I have considered the latter, and thought how wonderful it would be to proclaim that God is here at last.  He is come and we can rest in Him.  Then the more I thought about that I realized I was skipping over something important.  Christ not only will come, but He already has come.  That may seem obvious enough, but I feel that it has become too simple of a thought and we often overlook the implications of it.

Christ has come, our love, our joy, our life is here, we have His very presence here with us, do we live like it?  This I shall not go into further at the moment, but rather I want to focus on another point, namely:

Christ has come, yet so many people do not realize who He is.  If a king would come, do not heralds proclaim His arrival? Do not trumpets sound and people get ready for him?  Christ is the King of kings, yet we remain silent.  Who shall proclaim Him, who shall tell the nations of our God?

Our preparation does not deal solely with ourselves, but should and must include those around us.  I am reminded of a passage in Ezekiel 33 where it talks about comparing a watchman, set to warn the people of danger.  If he fails to warn them, their blood is on his hands, if he warns them, but they refuse, he has acquitted himself of their blood.  We too are watchmen, set in this world to watch and warn.  Show your love for them, tell them earnestly, plead with them.

Christ is here!  Do we live that joy out?  Ecce Homo - Behold the Man!  Look to Him, live and proclaim it, and joy shall be yours.