You will guide me with Your counsel, And afterward receive me to glory --Psalm 73:24
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, For He shall receive me. Selah --Psalm 49:15
Precious in the sight of the Lord, is the death of His saints.--Psalm 116:15
Dear Girls,
After our lives are over here on this earth, our Lord receives us! Paul tells us in 2nd Corinthians 5:8 that absent from the body is present with the Lord. As believers, we are His redeemed. We may be rejected and despised by many here on earth. We may even be persecuted for naming the name of Christ, but truly we have nothing to fear. Read what it says in Romans:
"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us"--Romans 8:18
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. --Romans 8:37-39
Death comes to all of us. We cannot buy our way out of it. The unbeliever goes to the grave unredeemed and is received in hell only to face the second death. (see Revelation 20:11-15) No matter what kind of rejection we face here on earth for our faith, we are victorious in death. Because we are accepted in the Beloved, we are received by the Lord Himself at the moment of our death. THE LORD HIMSELF RECEIVES US! We will hear Him say, "Well done, good and faithful servant...Enter into the joy of your Lord."
What an incentive to do His will then here on earth! How much time so many of us waste striving to be accepted by the people around us instead of sharing the truth of the Gospel with them. How much time do we waste trying to impress and please man? None of it matters in the end. Spend your time rightly...serving Him who will guide you with His counsel here on earth and receive you in glory when your life on earth is done. The Lord is on your side...there is nothing to fear. The worse that can happen is death and when that occurs the Lord will receive you. Ironically then, the worse that can happen to you here on earth is really the best thing that will ever happen to you.
Love
Mom
Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness.
1 comment:
I think of Stephen in Acts 7...just before he was stoned..."But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin." And when he had said this, he fell asleep." (vs. 55-60) Jesus was standing at the right hand of God...standing...when elsewhere Scripture always says He sits at the right hand of God. Jesus stood to receive His beloved child into heaven. ~ love rll
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