We are gone

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear but like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail. — Isaiah 51:6

I don't know about you, but sometimes the Bible is so brutally honest it hurts! We consider our world, our earth, to have been here a long time and assume it will be here a long time more. But God reminds us that it is temporary! We are even more temporary: just like flies, we're here for a short while, and then we're gone.

But not gone, gone! Christians are just gone from the temporary existence of earth because our lives are caught up with Christ in God's salvation which lasts forever and God's righteousness that will never end or fail.

Scripture for Comfort

Psalm 22:24
For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
 Nor has He hidden His face from Him;
 But when He cried to Him, He heard.

Psalm 37:24
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
 For the Lord upholds him with His hand.

John 16:33
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Nahum 1:7
The Lord is good,
 A stronghold in the day of trouble;
 And He knows those who trust in Him.
Don’t Get Lost in Your Troubles

Isaiah 26:3
You will keep him in perfect peace,
 Whose mind is stayed on You,
 Because he trusts in You.

[Message No: 7095]