To Receive You

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

John 14:3

The return of Christ is for us.  On the night before Christ went to the cross, He was instructing and comforting His very disturbed disciples.  He begins the passage which leads to our text with the words, ‘Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in me.’  He then proceeds to describe the dwelling places which are in His Father’s house.  He further states that He is going to prepare a place for them.  His promise to them forms our text for today.  This leads us to the clear and unmistakable conclusion that Christ will inevitably return for all His people.  The balance of the New Testament confirms this.  The repeated theme of I Thessalonians is the return of Christ.  The affirmation of one passage is, ‘so shall we ever be with the Lord.’  The whole of the Book of Revelation is the graphic description of the events leading to the return of Christ, and includes the specifics regarding that return.  In every case where the subject arises, the Scripture links the return of Christ to His people.  Christ comes to judge the living and the dead and to gather His people.  For that reason, we say with all the saints, ‘Even so come, Lord Jesus.’

Our Glorious Living Christ,
we rejoice that You will surely come again.
We praise You that our life does not end with this earth.
but that eternity with You lies before us.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning