Today’s Thought “Come and Go, To That Land…” G. Ward

1 Thessalonians 4

¹⁷ Then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. ¹⁸ Therefore, comfort one another with these words.

 

This scenario provided us, would come upon a question that needed answers concerning these churches identifying where their loved one’s hope in Jesus would exist – considering they died and whereas those living anticipated our Lord’s return (1 Cor.15:51-57), those who died presumably couldn’t. The answer provided would assure them that the souls of these who placed their full trust in Jesus while in earth (cf. Luke 6:46) were with the Lord and HE’D afford them the great opportunity to come back with HIM to witness believers (*still alive) to be joined onto an eternal physical presence with new resurrected bodies (1 Cor.15:50-54) designed by the Almighty,  permitting forever and whereas the same hope exists for our generation, to believe remains the requirement (and that certainly includes understanding all our Lord did and commanded, while affirming all HE did and said as true, along with acting on them by appropriating Jesus Christ in every endeavor (word, or deed) AND THIS IS NOT AUTOMATIC (Matt.7:21-23)!