I had a dream

In my dream the sky was falling, the world was coming to an end.

All I can remember thinking as I gazed at the sky, knowing that I would soon see Jesus face to face was "I wish that He would have found me in a better place."

I wasn't thinking of anything else but how self-centered I had been living my life the moment that He came back. I remember regret flooding my soul.

When I awoke, I was unable to get my dream out of my head. 

I knew what it meant to me, I knew that it was more than just a dream. It was a wake up call.

When I opened my bible to read a few hours later, I did one of those randomly-flip-the-bible-open-and-read-the-first-verses-I-see kind of things.

What I read was this passage from 2 Peter 3:10-14.

But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversations and godliness, 

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 

Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and new earth, wherein dwell righteousness. 

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

It was then that He had my attention. I took a good look at my life and decided that I didn't want Jesus, upon His return, to find me as I was. 

I had become far to wrapped up in things of this world, things that are temporary.
Things that steal parts of my heart that should belong to only One.

It was an immediate resolve that lasted a few moments of my day before I was seduced back into the life that I had been used to living.

Being the carnal being that I am, it is a constant battle every day even just to remember. One day I will be caught up to heaven, and the only thing that will really matter are the things that I did and the person that I was for Jesus. Everything else, will be gone. 

These past couple of days I have been reminded of my dream.

I know that there are lots of things, not necessarily huge or dramatic, but little things in my life that I could change to become closer to being the person that I want Jesus to find.
It is so easy for me to only see the now, instead of looking at life from an eternal perspective.

If I did, my life would radically change.