Christ Returning

I'm not putting anyone else down.  This is my perspective and everyone else has a right to theirs.  So my blog - indulge me.

No, I don't want Jesus to return because I don't like the president.  I don't want Him to return because of 'the gays' or Ellen 'Degeneret'.  I don't want Him to come back to punish the pro choice advocates. 

My pastor preaches about His imminent return.  "Be ready!"  Humm.. how be ready and why?  If He comes to take me out of this world, this world and all it's sin and despair will drop away.  Why would I need to pray more, behave better or read more scripture? 

I have friends who won't send their daughters to college because there's no point.  Jesus is just going to come back and women won't need jobs.  They should raise children to look forward to Jesus' return.  (head scratch).

There are end times conferences, books by the million (Left Behind series), endless classes - 'Are We in The End Times?'  Plotting the clues like an astrologer.  Divisions and even age old arguments over how He'll come, when He'll come, who will go when He comes.  Secretly rejoicing in the misfortune of those who will be left.  (Come on, even though it's de rigour to add 'of course it's so sad' you know you're wiping your brow and saying, 'whew!  Got in!)

Personally, I'm not 'ready'.  I can live with gay marriage, abortion, Rosie O'Donnell, women having the vote and working, people behaving badly.  In my worst times of depression I wanted to be out of pain, but not out of the world.  I know my parents wanted to "see Jesus face to face!' but in my mind, He doesn't really have a face, I'm going to be essence as will God, Jesus and my loved ones, and with the world gone, am I going to have human emotions of eagerness?

I'd rather work to make my corner of the world a better place.  To work on myself to be a light to the hopeless.  And when He comes, He comes.  And I hope the idea of only 'true' Christians going up is wrong and we all go up.