Stay Ready

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Betty is ready. She began following Jesus as a teenager and has taken opportunities her whole life to serve and please Him. She attends Bible studies, worship services, and prayer meetings. She’s taught studies, visited mission fields, worked in the nursery, served alongside her pastor-husband, and she loves being with God’s people every chance she gets. And remarkably she’s 102 years old and is still ready to do whatever pleases God. She’s an inspiration to many who might not feel like gathering with other believers some days. Then they remember, Betty will be there. I certainly can get there! Betty now says she’s anxious to get to heaven to be with her Savior. She says, “I am ready to see Jesus; I love Him so.”

The apostle Paul said he “would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8). But he knew God had work for him in encouraging believers in many churches (Philippians 1:23-24). So he kept serving and living “by faith” and “not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7). Paul remained ready and kept serving under God’s direction.

Whatever our age and stage in life, let’s ask God to help us make it our heart’s goal “to please [Christ]” (v. 9) and stay ready. Betty is ready. And if someday she isn’t ready, it’s because she’s already seeing Jesus face-to-face.

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0:00.0	We make it our goal to please Christ.
0:03.9	2 Corinthians 5, verse 9.
0:07.7	Welcome to this daily encouragement from Our Daily Bread.
0:11.9	Stay Ready, was written by Anne Cetus and read by Rochelle Troub.
0:25.5	2. Corinthians chapter 5 verses 1 through 10 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed
0:29.9	We have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven not built by human hands
0:35.8	Meanwhile we groan longing to be clothed instead with our
0:41.0	heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this
0:47.9	tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed instead with our heavenly
0:55.7	dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
1:00.7	Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the spirit
1:05.8	as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
1:09.8	Therefore, we are always confident, and know that as long as we are at home
1:14.4	in the body, we are away from the Lord, for we live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say,
1:23.3	and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
1:33.5	So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.
1:37.3	For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ,
1:42.4	so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
1:48.2	Stay Ready, written by Anne Cetus.
1:53.4	Betty is Ready.
1:55.6	She began following Jesus as a teenager and has taken opportunities her whole life to serve and please him.
2:03.9	She attends Bible studies, worship services, and prayer meetings.
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