Wherever 'There' May Be

May 24

“Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord,” I Thessalonians 4:17.

Perhaps it should be sufficient for us to know that we who believe in the Christ shall be forever with Him, but some of us speculate exactly where we shall be.

Some of us envision ourselves flying, angel-like, from cloud to cloud while others of us picture ourselves at the feet of Jesus being taught all the mysteries that eluded us while we were in this tabernacle of flesh.

Daniel 7:27 says, “Then the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.” This seems to suggest that the people of the One True and Living God will govern His everlasting Kingdom which shall be “under the whole heaven.”

Acts 1:11, 12 asks, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same manner as you have seen Him go.”

In Luke 23:43, Jesus said to the ‘good thief’ who hung on one of the crosses on either side of Him, “Today, you shall be with Me in Paradise.” In John 14:3, Jesus assured His disciples, “I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, you may be also.”

There are variations in the way it is promised, but the intent of His Word is true—the Lord Jesus Christ wants those who believe in Him, who are born again, washed in the cleansing flow of His shed blood to be with Him eternally.

Wherever that glorious place may be, may we walk with Him through the corridors and path-ways of time so we may abide forever with Him there—wherever ‘there’ may be.