RUN WITH THE VISION
On my husband's 63rd birthday, he fulfilled a dream. His dream was to
parasail; to fly in the wind in a man-made flying machine. As our Texas family drove to the grounds were this event would take place, I began to think of the ''ultimate flight.''
When we got there, my husband was:
a) authorized by the staff to take him up
b) briefed on his impending experience
c) suited up and strapped in for take-off
As we look at his experience, we too have to be ready for the “ultimate flight''
a) Our authorization is accepting Jesus Christ as our personal savior.
b) The Word briefs us on our impending journey
c) We are set on a course prepared by God
d) We are settled and have peace because of his promises
Our Holy Bible tells us in the King James Version of I Thessalonians 4:16-18
(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 (18) Wherefore comfort one another with these word.
As we look at Pauls’ writing to the church at Thessalonica, we have the
hope and assurance that – one day – we will take an “ultimate flight” to a place already prepared for us. Waiting on us will be our Lord and those loved ones that
Jesus is returning, will you be ready to go back with him?
THE ULTIMATE FLIGHT
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