Either Here Or There!
"We are confident, yes, well pleased rather
to be absent from the body and to be
present with the Lord."
2 Corinthians 5: 8
When a traveler took his assigned seat on an airplane, he realized
he was seated next to a well-known celebrity. “I never expected to
find you here,” the traveler said. “Well,” the celebrity replied,
“everybody has to be somewhere!”
Christians can only be in two places. Either we are present in our
body on earth or present with the Lord in heaven. The apostle Paul
even wrestled with the fact that being with Christ would be better,
but that God had called him to be on earth (Philippians 1:23).
While it's an exciting prospect to consider being with Christ when
we leave this earth, there's more! We'll also be reunited with
those
loved ones who died in Christ and preceded us to heaven. “And
thus we shall always be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians
4:17).
If you have lost friends or loved ones who died
as believers in Christ, your days of separation
will come to a close.
In God’s good time, you will be translated
from earth to heaven where you will be
with them and the Lord forever.
"He whose head is in heaven need
not fear to put his feet into the grave."
Matthew Henry
