If you are reading this article, it hasn't happened yet. So, until he comes back to gather us together what are we going to do? In light of him coming at any time, the action we should partake in is living the love of God with our brothers and sisters in Christ. Our Father calls it fellowship, koinonia in the Greek.
Fellowship is the most important thing we do until Christ returns. Fellowship with God our Father, fellowship with Christ our brother, and fellowship with our brothers and sister in Christ is the highest, most monumental act we can engage in. Again, fellowship is what we are suppose to be doing until that gathering time. We may have our eyes up to see him coming, but we need to have our hearts out loving everyone in the Father's family.
This world we abide in needs to experience this love of God fellowship. It is the Father's will: "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." (I Timothy 2:4).
He will come! Don't worry about it. He will absolutely come. Our looking up there won't make him come any sooner. Yes, we are diligently waiting for him, but let's focus on what God has called each and everyone of us to do in the Body of Christ and perhaps as we do that he may come back sooner than we expect.
So, until then, may God bless you and may you bless God by fellowshipping one with another in the love of God.
Remember:
- God has called us to be partakers [koinonia] of the divine nature. II Peter 1:4: “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,...”
- I Corinthians 1:9 and 10: God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship [koinonia] of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- Philippians 2:1 and 2: If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship [koinonia] of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
- Hebrews 13:15 and 16: By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. But to do good and to communicate [koinonia] forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
- II Corinthians 13:14: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion [koinonia] of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
Agape,
Bob
