Tuesday, July 23, 2013

I will meet you in the morning.

~ "“Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also." (John 14)

I have always thought of this passage in light of the Rapture, and the Second Coming.. but this morning I saw it in a new light.

I remembered when a family I know and love and respect so highly lost their teen son. I remember a dream I had the night before he unexpectedly was called home. I remember in the dream at a critical point I woke up in a place of the blackest darkness I have ever seen.. I remember being very cold and shivering.. and I started to say out loud, "Where am I?"

Hard to explain, but each time I spoke, something different would come out and it was like someone else speaking it.. and each time all that was said was "Jesus.." As though gently calling for him in the darkness..

Suddenly from a distance an intense light shined.. like those rays of the morning that I love and that the Bible speaks of.. and I could see the silhouette of a great valley and a far hill as well as the hill I was standing on.. and I knew that it was Jesus.. he had heard his name and was coming across the darkness. My heart began to race with excitement and an incredible peace flooded over me, and the dream ended.

I honestly believe I was being allowed to witness what this boy witnessed in his passing. I honestly believe he called on Christ because he knew him in this life as his Savior and Christ was coming to him just as he promises each of us in this passage..

"I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also." (John 14)

If we die before the rapture, Christ will meet us in the darkness of death to take us to be with him in his home, among his family.
If we are alive in the rapture, he will meet us in the clouds.
If we are alive in the second coming, he will meet us here on the earth as he establishes his physical kindgom.

Where he is.. we will be.. because he paid dearly so that he could be WITH US and we could be with him.. I fear the process of dying at times.. but I do not fear death.. I feel that I have seen what waits for me... the rays of the morning, my Savior and Friend and Lord <3


~ For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be ...unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

(2 Corinthians 5)

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