Can You Hear That?!

Can you hear that?!!!                                                    

What is that sound?

That is the loudest thing I have ever heard!!

It is all over facebook and every major news network is trying to figure it out!

The sound is so loud that it is deafening!!

It sounds so beautiful!! Don’t you think so???

Some are saying it is a frightening sound.

People are going crazy!

Running out of their homes to try to figure out what it could be!!

Every country, the same thing! Hurry, run outside!!

Trumpets, louder, and clearer…like crystal…no…like THUNDER!!!

My heart is filled with JOY!!

Some are laying on the ground hiding their faces in terror.

Could it really be? Could HE be here??!!

If He were, would you be excited?

Would you be scared?

Would you be running to your window to see?

Or would you want to run and hide?

Of course, you would just KNOW deep down inside yourself that it would be too late.

I would not have time to sit at my computer.

I would not have time to warn you; to explain.

I could not explain to you Who, “He” is.

I would be on my way to be with my Lord.

Would you?

Do you know of these trumpets I speak of?

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18:

“16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.”

*(emphasis mine)

It is important to note that these verses in context are a letter written to followers of Christ. Notice the dead “in Christ”. There is a common thread throughout scripture that clearly teaches how to be “in Christ”.

Matthew 24:36-39:

 “36 But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.”

Clearly, this day will be a surprise.

This question was shared with us during a devotional last night:

“If you knew that Jesus was going to come within the next 24 hours, what would you do differently? Would you call your loved ones? Would you tell as many as you could about Christ? 

Would you spend hours in prayer?”

Perhaps you don’t even know Jesus.

Maybe you don’t know what you need to do to be “in Christ”?

If you have taken the word of someone else that you have done the right thing or taken the right steps to “be a Christian”, maybe it is time for you to be sure that you have asked the Lord if you have.

I remember once, long ago coming across these verses:

Matthew 7:21-23:

“21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

*There will be many very GOOD people who really believed that they had done many good things FOR the Lord who Jesus will say that He never knew!

It is out of my love for those people that I write this!

If you have read this very long letter to you so far, please know that I love you all!

Also please know that if you have any questions about what the Bible has to say about salvation and how to be sure you are “in Christ”, then I would LOVE to study with you!! Jesus really did make it easy.

I hear often that there are many paths to heaven.
RIGHT ABOVE THE VERSES WHERE JESUS SAYS, “I WILL DECLARE TO THEM, I NEVER KNEW YOU…”…WITHIN HIS VERY SAME SERMON, HE SAYS,

Matt 7:13-14:

“13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”

Jesus said that; not Laura.

I love you!!

I pray that when the trumpet sounds, we all go meet Him together!!