John 14:2 NKJV
In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
When someone prepares a place for someone or some people, there is an event that will take place that requires that preparation. Revelation 21:2 NKJV says, “Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” This lets us know that the preparations being made for us are elaborate and the event is special. Since Jesus is preparing such an elaborate place for us and therefore planning a very special event for us to participate in, how should we be preparing ourselves? The extent to which we go to prepare for an event depends on the nature of the event. We would not prepare for a picnic the same way we would prepare to attend a banquet at a palace or residence of a head of state. Let us examine our lives and see if we are living like we have an invitation to the event Jesus is planning.
John 3:2-3 NKJV - “Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.”
Hebrews 12:1 NKJV - “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us”
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NKJV - “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.