1 Thessalonians 1:10 - Salvation

Scripture:

1 Thessalonians 1:10
10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.
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Thoughts:

This is what it's all about.  This is what's real.  This is what truly matters.  Through Jesus' death and resurrection, God has saved all of us who have received Him by faith!  The wrath that was due us, was taken by Jesus.  We then no longer face God's righteous wrath over sin.

Christian, let that sink in.  Nothing else in all of time and space compares to this glorious truth.  No one can "defeat" us, because even if our mortal lives are taken, we will only then enter into the most glorious realm of all, heaven.  Indeed, spiritually we already belong to that realm, in Christ.

Ephesians 2:5-6
5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, [God] made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
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Do the problems of this life have you down?  Remember your place with your Father in heaven.  How then can we despair?


Prayer:

Thank You Lord!  Whom or what shall I fear, when You have taken away my greatest foe, death itself. 

I don't deserve heaven, but am heading there because of Your sacrifice.  As the hymnist Charles Wesley penned:

"Amazing love!  How can it be, that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?"

Thank You for this unimaginable truth!  May I walk in this light, today.

Amen

Scripture quotations taken from the NASB.