It’s a Rainy Sunday

I’m up earlier than usual. My wife went to a craft outing with her sisters and mom. So until this afternoon it’s just me and Macy. Hanging out together. I really miss going to church and when I could drive myself and get up early enough I used to go at least twice a month. Now the barriers are, I sleep till 10:30 AM or later on the weekends, it’s a lot of work to get me up and dressed and I can’t drive myself. So I content myself with listening to the service online. I still miss church and seeing some of the people. I’ll be blunt, there’s some people I don’t miss seeing but the Bible tells me this is a wrong attitude. But I want you to know that I struggle with a lot of things.

I do enjoy reading a lot. I’ve been enjoying Thessalonians of late. The following scriptures are referred to as the “Rapture”. I don’t believe the word rapture is in the Scripture and it wasn’t and yell the definition of rapture was explained that I understood. Rapture means to be “caught up with great delight”! So the following verses describe being caught up:

“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: 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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 KJV

I know there are many people who find this concept ridiculous and make fun of it. Making fun of it does not make it any less true. It also says to comfort one another with these words. It’s a great comfort to know someday will leave this “vale of tears”!