Comfort For The Believer

Good Morning!! These words comfort,...These words speak real consolation, to real heartaches and real sorrow. These words,...when received by faith and firmly fixed before our eyes, are sufficient to bring hope to even the darkest times, and deepest difficulties. What are these comforting words of which the apostle speaks? It is the two-fold good news that death is temporary,...and that our life with Jesus is not.

Therefore encourage one another with these words.—1 Thessalonians 4:18 (NIV)

When we face the gaping, cutting pain of the grave,...for ourselves or with our loved ones,...there is nothing that could be more encouraging than to hear, and to know, that this is not forever. The seeming finality of death is broken to pieces, by the declaration of the resurrected Christ: I will come again and bring you with me! Only the body of God's children, is asleep. The soul that is absent from the body is immediately with the Lord. And here is the second part of Paul's comforting message,...that our time with the Lord will never come to an end.

When we finally see our Savior, and bask in his glory and perfection,...is the one moment that never has to come to an end.

Dear Lord, allow these words to be of comfort to us,...and all other believers. He Lives, and we in Him, live as well,...now and forever. Amen.

"We never truly know whether our faith is strong or weak, until it's been tried and tested."