Daily devotion – comfort one another…
There is so much happening worldwide and locally that tells us we are living in the Last Days and that Jesus Christ will soon be calling His Church home, as Paul teaches us in 1 Thess 4: 15 For this we say 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 are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, 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 shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Paul’s last words in this amazing passage are that we as believers are to comfort one another with these words!
Jesus said to His disciples that after His death He would rise again from the grave three days later! We have His empty tomb as constant proof to this amazing miracle and fulfilled promise from God.
This is why we can comfort one another. Though around us it breaks our hearts to see such turmoil, immorality and darkness, we have this blessed hope that Christ is coming again to call His Church home to be with Him in glory!
The Apostle Peter said that this hope would be a constant catalyst for us to be living godly and serving Jesus whilst we wait for the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God sounding its blessed signal. 2Pe 3:11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 2Pe 3:12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God,
Comfort also comes to us because God keeps His promises. The Bible tells us that God cannot lie, that it is impossible for Him to do so – Num 23:19 “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?”
Look up…watch and pray….remember He promised!