From Samuel Bagster's Daily Light for the Daily Path Devotional [c. 1875]
...with application and prayer responses by me...
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. John 14:3
'Where I am...there ye may be also' ye: second person plural--we, His followers may ever more be with Him...ah, what bliss and comfort!
An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. I Pet. 1:4
an inheritance: reserved! it cannot be taken away, it fadeth not away and it is incorruptible, undefiled...will that not be Christ Himself?
Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Heb. 13:14
'Seeker-sensitive movement': We have been catering, in the modern church, to the wrong seekers!
This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Acts 1:11
Today, 8/13/07, it was reported on the public radio station that a 'priest' in the Utah community of miners asked all to make God the focal point of their lives 'until He comes back'...when 'priests' begin to grow aware of His coming, shall we remove our gaze from the heaven and fix it on the temporal?
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. James 5:7, 8
Be patient...be patient...be patient! wait...wait...wait...
Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Heb. 10:37
...just a little while...a little while...
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. I Thess. 4:17, 18
Comfort one another with these words [v.18]: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. (14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. (15) For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. (16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (17) 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.
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