From John MacArthur:
“The Lord’s promise:
Not only is Christ preparing heaven for us, but He will also come back and take us there. The Lord isn’t going to send someone else to get us. He will take us home personally. That tells us how precious we are to Him.
My dad used to tell a story about a father who dropped off his little boy at a street corner, and told him he would be back in twenty minutes after taking care of some business. The father’s car broke down, and he wasn’t able to get back to his son for four or five hours. The son waited on the corner by a store that whole time, and the panicky father had no way of phoning him. He didn’t get back until eleven o’clock at night, and the boy was rocking back and forth on the sidewalk whistling a tune. The father pulled up to the curb, hugged his son, and said he was very sorry. The boy replied, “What are you sorry about? You said you were coming.”
That’s the kind of trust we can put in the Lord. He said He was coming back. It may look like it’s becoming dark around us and that He may have forgotten, but we can still trust His promise to return. He is getting heaven ready for us, and He is coming to get us.
“Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). He is the way to the Father. He is life that is eternal, and He is everything anyone ever needs. Everything that was lost in Adam is regained in Christ. Trust His presence, His promises, and His person. No matter how bad things may become, we have comfort because we can trust Him.”
We have been granted grace upon grace, and mercy upon mercy. How can we hope to fathom or comprehend the depths of God’s love for us through the sacrifice of our savior, Christ Jesus?
As this Easter week passes over us, let us fall upon our knees in praise and repentence. As we celebrate the Savior’s resurrection from the dead, let us also celebrate our own resurrection in Christ; for we were dead in our transgressions until we believed upon Him and repented.
Christ above all,
Jon
