Anstey Methodist Church

I suppose that we have all seen cartoons of elderly gentlemen carrying placards containing our text. "Prepare to meet thy God". It seems almost as if this prophecy, first spoken by the prophet Amos, has become a joke. The end of the world is at hand, so, just in case there is a life after death, and just in case there is after all a God, we had better prepare to meet doom.

But today I want to rescue our text from the realm of amusement, and try to discover a more hopeful and beautiful meaning in the words.