Rapture Ready? (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and thank you so much for being with us this week, where we spent time talking about the rapture of the church and we referenced few passages that are speaking to us about the truth that we the church will be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet, we will receive our glorified bodies, our bodies will be made like His own and we will meet Him in the air and forever be with the Lord. The question we need to ask ourselves, are we living lives that are rapture ready? The apostle John wrote in 1 John chapter 3, verses 1 to 3, ‘Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.’ John tells us that the time is coming when He will be revealed and we are going to see Him. Can you imagine, your eyes are going to see Jesus! Your eyes are going to see the Son of the living God! It says, our eyes will see Him and, in that moment, we will be like Him, our bodies will be changed and we will see Him as He is. What a moment it is going to be when you see Him in all His beauty, glory, grandeur. So, John says, look, if we have this hope in our hearts that one day when He is revealed, our eyes will see the glory of this risen King and that we will be like Him. If we have this hope, then here is one thing we are going to be doing, we are going to be purifying ourselves because He is pure. Notice the tense, it is a present continuous, that means it is a constant thing we engage in to purify ourselves, keeping our mind, hearts, bodies, lives sanctified, set apart, holy, consecrated, dedicated to Him, living pleasing to Him, living aligned to His will, we are purifying ourselves because we are going to see Him, that is the anticipation and expectation and John says that is how we are supposed to live. So, are you ready? Keep living rapture ready. Keep purifying yourself even as He is pure because when He is revealed, we are going to see Him as He is. We are looking forward and getting ready for that moment. Let’s pray, Father, we invite the work of the Holy Spirit to help us live lives that are rapture ready. We purify ourselves even as He is pure, knowing that when He is revealed, we will see Jesus as He is, help us, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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