DAY 318 Read Acts 18:1-17 and 1 Thessalonians.
Today's reading: While Paul worked in Corinth, he learned of certain errors that had already crept into the church at Thessalonica. He wrote a letter to set matters straight.
Memory gem: "We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words' (1 Thessalonians 4:17, 18). (Read carefully verses 13 to 18.)
Thought for today:
Christian believers everywhere have a right to hear these words read to them in times of sorrow by their pastors and ministers. Notice: "Wherefore comfort one another with these words." This is apostolic authority for words of comfort when our hearts are broken.
Personally, I know how comforting these words are. Some time ago we lost one of the brightest jewels in our family. She was beautiful, sweet of character, loving, and a great lover of the Lord Jesus Christ, and suddenly she was taken from us. In two terrible hours she was gone from us. Then how wonderful were these words, how blessed was the hope, the hope of "the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" and "our gathering together unto him" (Titus 2:13; 2 Thessalonians 2:1).
The believer is not immortal now, but he has eternal life, which is promised to him in Jesus Christ (see 1 John 5:11, 12). Immortality will be given him at the second coming of the Lord, "in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump" (1 Corinthians 15:52).
The only way to become immortal and to live for all eternity with Christ is to accept God's plan by accepting God's Man, His only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. How do we do this? By receiving Him as Saviour and Lord.
Can we imagine what our sensations will be on that resurrection morning? We cannot, of course. Glorious coming day! Let us lift up our heads and rejoice, for our redemption draweth nigh. Jesus is coming! When we hear the words of Christ, "Surely I come quickly," may our response and prayer be, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus" (Revelation 22:20).
Today's reading: While Paul worked in Corinth, he learned of certain errors that had already crept into the church at Thessalonica. He wrote a letter to set matters straight.
Memory gem: "We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words' (1 Thessalonians 4:17, 18). (Read carefully verses 13 to 18.)
Thought for today:
Christian believers everywhere have a right to hear these words read to them in times of sorrow by their pastors and ministers. Notice: "Wherefore comfort one another with these words." This is apostolic authority for words of comfort when our hearts are broken.
Personally, I know how comforting these words are. Some time ago we lost one of the brightest jewels in our family. She was beautiful, sweet of character, loving, and a great lover of the Lord Jesus Christ, and suddenly she was taken from us. In two terrible hours she was gone from us. Then how wonderful were these words, how blessed was the hope, the hope of "the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" and "our gathering together unto him" (Titus 2:13; 2 Thessalonians 2:1).
The believer is not immortal now, but he has eternal life, which is promised to him in Jesus Christ (see 1 John 5:11, 12). Immortality will be given him at the second coming of the Lord, "in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump" (1 Corinthians 15:52).
The only way to become immortal and to live for all eternity with Christ is to accept God's plan by accepting God's Man, His only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. How do we do this? By receiving Him as Saviour and Lord.
Can we imagine what our sensations will be on that resurrection morning? We cannot, of course. Glorious coming day! Let us lift up our heads and rejoice, for our redemption draweth nigh. Jesus is coming! When we hear the words of Christ, "Surely I come quickly," may our response and prayer be, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus" (Revelation 22:20).
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