Going to Jesus

Daily Thoughts

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  07-01 Free Indeed 07-02 The Testimony of the Lord 07-03 A Brute 07-04 A Change in Speakers 07-05 He Is Coming! 07-06 Of Judgment and Mercy 07-07 Favoring the City of God 07-08 A Heavenly Conversation 07-09 Commandments for a Place 07-10 Paul’s Gospel 07-11 All Things 07-12 Flattering Titles 07-13 The Grief of the Wicked 07-14 “The Times That Went over David and Israel.” 07-15 The Law is Holy 07-16 The Simplicity that is in Christ 07-17 “The Manner of the Jews” 07-18 The Law was Prophetic, AND IT STILL IS! 07-19 Wanted by Carnally Minded Men: The Flesh, Dead or Alive,or,
  Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead? 07-20 A Psalm 119 Imitation 07-21 Fourteen More Years 07-22 “Lord”, or “Lord”? 07-23 “Personal Lord and Savior” 07-24 Can the World Hate You? 07-25 “Into All the World” 07-26 Coals of Fire 07-27 1Corinthians 11 07-28 Who Are You Going to Kiss? 07-29 The Sacrifices of Israel 07-30 At Ease in Zion 07-31 The Beginning of Judgment

 

Random Thought
7-5

He Is Coming!

“Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad! Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it! Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord, for he is coming! He is coming to judge the earth; He will judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth.”
Psalm 96:11–13

Jesus is coming again! He will return to reign on earth with perfect justice for a thousand years. Humans have never experienced such a reign, though Israel experienced brief times of perfect justices whenever one of their kings loved God’s law and carried out its righteous judgments. But that did not happen often, and it never lasted long. But even at that, no king of Israel was as pure in heart as the Son of God, and none of those kings, even Solomon, was nearly as wise. The reign of Christ Jesus will be perfect in every part, and what a relief he will bring to the meek and to the upright in heart! Throughout his thousand-year reign, good people will never be oppressed, and wicked people will never escape their just punishment.

The return of Jesus is the greatest hope of all who truly love God. Every person whose heart and life is pleasing to God feels the yearning for the Lord’s return. If the Spirit of God is alive and well in your soul, then you already feel what I am talking about. In one of the last verses of the Bible, the apostle John wrote, “The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come!’ ” (Rev. 22:17). Amen! The holy Ghost in us calls out for Jesus to come, and so do those who are ready for their Bridegroom to come and take them to his wedding feast in the Father’s presence.

The truth of the return of Jesus to rescue us from the governments and cultures of sinful man provides us with great comfort. Listen to what Paul said had been revealed to him by the Lord. He sent this message to the saints in Thessalonica, who were among his most faithful, and most persecuted Gentile converts:

1Thessalonians 4

15. Now, we say this to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who sleep.

16. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

17. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them among the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so, we will ever be with the Lord.

18. So then, encourage one another with these words.

Amen!