Going Home Soon Brothers and Sisters

I think more about Christ, heaven, the Marriage Supper of the Lamb and going home almost more than anything else these days. We are so close brothers and sisters to the rapture first and then the tribulation period that these events are on my mind continually.

I am not looking to see the antichrist, I am looking for Jesus Christ as we have heard others say too. My hope is in my Lord's return. Believers will not see the antichrist or at least we will not know who he is if we did see him, because he will not come into power until after we are gone.

Sadly though there is no hope for those who have not trusted in Christ. There is fear everywhere now!

Before the lockdown here in my home town I saw an older woman about my age in the waiting room of the doctor's office. This poor woman was absolutely terrified, crying and whimpering that she had to come in for her appointment.

Her husband was with her, a patient and kind man. He didn't mock her, he didn't make any mean remarks, he simply remained silent and loving while the woman expressed her fear.

The woman didn't want to touch the clipboard, she asked for a mask and whimpered while she picked up the pen to sign in to the office. The receptionist assured her that they wipe down each clipboard with disinfectant after every patient. The woman was so distraught she wouldn't believe the receptionist and accused her of lying.

The doctors took this woman first so that she didn't have to wait because of her fear.

I do not fear as this woman did but I can empathize with someone like this having been fearful in the past over other things in my life. After I became born again I would have passing fears from time to time but they relented quickly as I prayed.

Now there are very few things that cause fear in me. Since there is nothing that could happen to me that would take away the Holy Spirit in me I have no fears that devastate me. When my body dies it goes to the Lord, so there is no fear of that.

Philippians s1:20-21 "20 I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness, so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

Galatians 2:20
"I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me."

I do not boast of any great courage, it is Christ I boast about Who keeps me in His care every day until He comes for Me.