You may or may not know from where you have come. Do you know where you are heading?
All passengers will have to leave this airport and this earth will shut down at some point.
The announcement has come that the connecting flight is delayed indefinitely. It is delayed for the sake of the passengers who are not yet ready to board the aircraft. The Pilot desires to take all or most of the transit passengers with Him. The announcement will come suddenly and we need to be ready to board the aircraft at short notice!
Once the flight is taken off, there will be a process of preparation on the earth, for the shutting down of the airport which will not be pleasant for those left behind. Therefore, in the meantime, we need to do everything necessary to make sure we get on that connecting flight!
A check list with 7 points will help!
1) Don't forget that you are a passenger in transit. You are a stranger and a pilgrim on earth looking for a better country with foundations Whose Builder and Maker is GOD!
2) Make sure you know the flight number. The LORD JESUS is the One Who will come and receive us to Himself and take us to our eternal destination.
3) Don't lose your passport! Without faith in the LORD JESUS CHRIST, you can't catch that flight.
4) Don't get attached to anything at the airport because you are not permitted to carry anything with you on the flight. You will have greater and better possessions up there!
5) Be careful not to get preoccupied with, or, glued or addicted to anything or any activity at the airport, however good or attractive it might be. You might miss the crucial flight! Don't love or set your heart on the world or the things that are in this world.
6) Be careful and alert and be listening to hear the announcement regarding the flight. Be sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit at all times.
7) Carefully hold on to your Boarding Pass all the time without which you will not board the flight! Develop an intimate passionate relationship with the LORD JESUS which will bring you to instantaneous obedience to the Holy Spirit. That has to become your built-in automatic reaction!!
"Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight a cry was heard: 'Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!' Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' But the wise answered, saying, 'No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.' And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' But he answered and said, 'Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.' Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. Matthew 25:1-13
Imagine our plight if we miss that flight!
