I once spent a great deal of time studying end times….Jesus’ return….the tribulation….and so on….

 

But I am not sure that God has intended for us to make that our priority……

 

1 Corinthians 15 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed–  52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.   53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.     54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

 

What I do know, in reading that passage, is this:

  1. Things happen quickly
  2. We can ALL move from a perishable body to an eternal one
  3. Death will no longer be the victor

 

John lays it out in his first book…..in his first paragraph.

 

John 1-

He showed up

He was not recognized

But He still offers ALL of us a chance to throw in with Him:

    “To those who will receive Him…..He gives the right to become children of God….”

 

We don’t need anything else.

 

We don’t have any other purpose.

 

Our future, in Him, is a lock.

 

And that my friends….IS ALL THERE IS TO FOCUS ON…..RECEIVE HIM and go and spread the good news…..not a message of rules and guilt….but a message of hope and forgiveness….

 

I had a very wise friend once tell me……”Do FIRST things FIRST…..and second things….not at all.”

 

Pretty good advice.

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J