Last Call

In my younger, hard drinking days, of my early twenties, my friends and I used to shut the bars down on Friday and Saturday nights. Then we would gather at one house or another and party until daylight. At the bars, when it got close to closing time, the bartender would always yell out “Last Call”. We would always ask each other, ‘how you doing, do you need one more?’
These days on the country radio stations is a song called ‘Last call.’ It kind of takes a different twist on that mantra in the sense that the woman singing it is singing to a man whom she knows is in the bar and its closing time and her phone is ringing. She just knows that he used up all his other options and she is the last one he is calling.
As Christians, we read the promises of God in many places about Christ and his return someday to claim his Kingdom. He will come again, and we hold on to that promise of eternal glory.
Down through the ages, many people and cultures have expressed that they were in the end times. It has recurred many times. People read things into the events of the day and make assumptions that so far, haven’t come to pass. That very thing is happening today. With the world events and wars and rumors of wars, climate anomalies and many other things, a lot of people are certain we are in the last days.
Scripture is very clear in expressing that No One, not even the Son, knows the day or hour, only the Father. We are of course given things to watch for and that’s where many draw their conclusions.
Maybe we are in the end times and the return of Christ is at hand, I don’t know. The point is, are you ready? I know many tea-totlers and puritans are going to take umbrage with the analogy I am using here but we know that the spirit, the helper, is with us. I cant help using the analogies I use and if we are still and listen, I envision the spirit as the bar-tender so to speak. If we be still and listen to the still, small, voice we just may hear that nudging. “How’s your walk?” “How’s your assurance of salvation?” “How’s your family?” “Christ is coming back, are you ok? Are you waiting, like the guy in the song, until you have no other options? When the last trumpet sounds are you ready for LAST CALL?