My daily verse last Saturday was 1Thessalonians 4:16-17: “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are still alive 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.”
I needed to be reminded that those who love the LORD Christ Jesus will “always be with the LORD.”
I felt worn down. After a few weeks suffering with a pinched nerve in my neck, a head cold, two MRI’s, and waiting to talk to doctors, I was dragging. Except for medical visits, and one brief grocery pick up, I had not left the house. The pinched nerve in my neck caused intense pain and weakness in my shoulder and right arm. I was miserable.
Saturday’s daily verse reminded me that any day now, the LORD Himself could descent from heaven with a shout! And at any moment we could be caught up to meet Him in the air. But it was that last phrase in verse 17 that touched my heart … “we will always be with the LORD.”
I know that right now the LORD is with me. But I also know that sometimes the stresses of this life dull my senses of His presence. But when He comes back – WHEN He comes back – we will always BE with Him. I’m living in that promise today.
