Reading
SAA Notes
Faith and works go together and should never be separated. Faith without works is dead, and works without faith is fruitless and directionless. What ambition fills your heart? Does it line up with Scripture?
SJA Notes
* Dear God, please show us what You want us to understand from Your word today.
“Then we who are alive, who are left, 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.”
We are able to read this passage and hear Paul’s words to us today.
Paul was human, and he died.
He is in the first segment of people,
“And the dead in Christ will rise first.”
But when he wrote, he was alive, and so places himself in the segment of God’s people who will be alive when Jesus returns (because no man knows the day nor the hour) – Writing encouragement to us all.
Because whether we are raised in Christ first because we have died or alive and caught up together with those dead to meet our Lord in the air – It doesn’t matter!
We all, all of us, whether we shuffle off or whether we still breathe life in this world when the King of Ages returns – We all of God’s people get to ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD.
This should be of great encouragement to us today.
That we will ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD.
* Father God,
Thank You for Your Word here that we read – That You that whether we are raised first or caught up second we will have finished our race, and will be with You always.
Always.
Thank You Lord God for this hope, what a hope! What a Saviour!
Amen.