By Faith Shielded By God's Power

1Peter 1:5 “who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.”

            O Lord!  Shielded by Your power!  Several verses come immediately to mind: “Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world”, If God be for us, who can stand against us?”,   “In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me”, and “The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?”  What a precious promise, Lord!  How can I thank You enough, and how should I ever be afraid at all?

            Lord, I am not spiritualizing here, but as You know, my husband and I are finally reading the “Left Behind” series and are just into book one after the “Rapture” has occurred.  Today in our newspaper, there is an article about the founder of Family Life Radio Worldwide, who has calculated mathematically that You will return on Saturday.  I know Your return is imminent, as it was when Peter wrote this, but You said when You were here that even You did not know the time of Your return and warned, through Your apostles, not to set dates.  Would I be delighted if You returned on Saturday? Absolutely!  But that is totally up to You.  You have instructed us to always be ready.  Two thousand years ago when Peter wrote this, he said, “the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.”  It was ready then…how much more now!

            There were two very sad things in that article:

1)      It said that most Christians do not believe in the “Rapture”.

2)      Pre-Day parties and “Day After” concerts have been planned and a Facebook entry that has encouraged looting after Your return already had 175K RSVPs.

Lord, folks really don’t have any idea of what will happen after Your return.  May we be Your voice!