John 14:22-23 English Standard Version

22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 English Standard Version

19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

This Word is true and yet we do not seem satisfied. We anticipate a final solution and we look to the prophecies to be fulfilled in order to be satisfied that His Second Coming is imminent.

Are we so tired of this life that we cannot enjoy His presence in the here and now?

The work of the Lord is an ongoing process and it will continue until the Father says it is done.

We are the work of the Lord and have been since we accepted His Lordship by faith. That will continue until we die or He calls us out.

Perhaps that is what some yearn for more so than His Second Coming.

Death has caught us up in Christ. All that came before us and they have gone on before us to be with the Lord. Are we so afraid of death that we would rather be snatched up alive to join Him in the clouds?

I cannot answer that question for others. I’ve been shot and I know pain. Death does not frighten me, pain does.

What frightens me more than that is missing one more opportunity to hear His call to duty and have one more task to serve my God. Each call to duty is one less thing that has to be done to bring His Second Coming into being, whatever that might look like.

I am not done. Not yet.

Zechariah 14:4-5 New King James Version 

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And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.

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Then you shall flee through My mountain valley,
For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
Yes, you shall flee
As you fled from the earthquake
In the days of Uzziah king of Judah.

Thus the Lord my God will come,
And all the saints with You.

Given that we do not know what day this will happen, it might give us some comfort that we all will come with Him.

Are you in Christ?

If you are when He comes back according to these verses, we will come with Him.

While we do not know what is about to happen today, we have this Word that says there will be a day we all will return with the Lord.

We do not know when or what will happen, nor should we concern ourselves with any of that.

We should make sure we will be among the saints that come with Him.

If you have not accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, you still have an opportunity to be in Christ and look forward to that day.

2 Thessalonians 1:10 English Standard Version (ESV) when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.