With Him! - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2026

The LORD is near - Thursday, May 6, 2022
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

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With Him!

The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 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.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

With Him!
What a thought! The Lord Jesus knows where to look for, and to gather up, every one of His own from the dust of death. He will have the dust give up that which was laid in it, to make each one a body of glory, fashioned like His own, and will set each heart in His own presence and glory. The Son of Man will rise up and come down from that height, down to the dust, where Satan has been allowed to separate the component parts of the bodies of those that sleep in Christ. Each one of these is to stand up as a witness that He is the Resurrection and the Life.

"And thus we shall always be with the Lord"! That to my soul is so unutterably sweet, so divinely and perfectly gracious. The thought that I have to meet the Lord Himself to be forever with Him, touches the very quick of my heart. Ah! Does that Lord who has loved me with so patient a love, and kept me with so holy a care from the time He first gave me life, does He say, "You shall meet Me"? And more than this, that He is coming down to meet me in the air?

These eyes of mine shall see Him, these ears shall hear Himâ€”the One who loved and gave Himself for me, putting forth this last expression of His love for those His Father had given Him. And this is no transient meeting, but caught up to dwell forever with Him! I don't care where I am if I am with Him; everything is in that with Him. If in the New Jerusalem, it would be a poor place without Him. What without Him would be all the brightness of heavenly glory? To me there is only that one thingâ€”I shall be forever with Him.

G. V. Wigram

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