A call to throw down your phones when the time comes

It is said he will come again like a thief in the night.  Will you be ready?  He says look always to the sky.  Will you?

Not long ago now a deputy was shot at point blank while serving a ticket.  He had no idea this stop would change his life forever.  Some of the first observers to this highway scene did what seems all too natural these days -- take out the cell phone and record.  Yes, not to render aid, not to help but thinking of the coolness of recording this scene to friends later.

Yet when HE comes it will not be a life-changer but a life-ender.  That is right, life as known will end and the Great Rebirth of those in the book of life will begin anew this time without death.  It will be pencils down, no redos, no extensions.

Will you be there to enjoy this as a part of the movie or be the cell phone recorder of its occurrence?

Be warned.  When it happens you will know it unmistakably.  There will be no time to call or reason to because all will know it at once.  He is all-powerful and timeless.  Throw down your cells, watches, smart this or that.  They will be your undoing then.  These things will have no meaning. Instead, enjoy the prospect of being forever free of all that for paradise is at your footsteps.

But there will be those like Lot's wife who will 'look back'.  She will grab her phone and stare at this event not with her own eyes but through the looking glass of the carl zeiss lens.  Do not be her.  Look before you and revere with all you can.  Drop the i-thisOrThat where you stand and look to the sky!

The deputy survived and the gunman captured and the event recorded duly by some stranger with a phone.  Yet though the realtime things get the more less real they become.  Be there to tell the story as a part of the act that will make it real for you and for others to come.