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The Lord’s Coming — Part 2
“Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words”
(1 Thessalonians 4:17-18).
Who can think or speak of the happy reunions on that morning of cloudless joy? Doubtless the person of the Lord will fix every eye, and delight every heart; still there will be the recognition of those who, though long parted from us here, have never lost their place in our hearts. And as all will perfectly bear the image of the Lord, we can never lose sight of Him. Though every one will have his own identity and his own special joy, yet all will be like the Lord, and the joy of each will be the common joy of all. But chiefest of all our joys that heavenly morning, and from which all other joys shall flow, will be to see His face, and to behold His glory. The Apostle John sums up all this blessedness by saying: “We know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:2).
What comfort this is, and what courage it gives us to press on until that moment when we finally see Him face to face!
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