“…and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”Matthew
28:20b NKJV
That is our Lord Jesus Christ’s promise that He is with you always, even
to the end of the age. Is it not the most wonderful promise of all for you and
me and all believers in Him? Jesus Christ is with us now and forever. Prophet
Isaiah revealed the mystery of His name as Immanuel which means God with us. “Therefore
the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and
bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” (Isaiah 7:14 NKJV) This is the
triumphal, joyful shout of confidence and boldness of the children of God
according to Paul, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31b)
Hebrews further comforts us to be totally and completely sure of his presence
in our midst. “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5b NKJV)
These are not mere encouraging and comforting words that God is trying to
help us out in time of stress and troubles. Those are facts and reality and
truth! So, do not take it lightly. Use your intelligent mind to digest and
understand what it means to you in the very midst of troubles and heartaches and
difficulties right now. The Person Jesus Christ who walked on the streets and
villages in the first century is with you in your midst right now.
Just a few hours before His arrest and trial and death, Jesus Christ our
Lord comforted His disciples in the Upper Room. “Let not your heart be
troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many
mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you
to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and
the way you know.” (John 14:1-4 NKJV)
Jesus Christ told His disciples not to lose heart because even if He died
on the rugged cross as a helpless victim of sin God would raise Him again from
the dead and He would come back and receive them where He is. Is it not the
good news? Our God cannot lie but only tell the truth forthrightly and bluntly
all the time. God is just, true, and real, so what He says is just, true, and
real to our lives. When He says that He is with us and never leaves us nor
forsakes us, He means it. It’s not just merely soothing words. We have that
kind of God who is forever true and real.
That’s the genuine hope of God to those who are being justified by faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. So, we glory Jesus Christ crucified, through whom we
have peace with God. “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by
faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of
God.” (Romans 5:1-2 NKJV)
Jesus Christ was with His disciples during His earthly ministry
physically. But now He is with the children of the Father in the Spirit. The
mystery of God which kept in secret for ages and generations has now disclosed.
That is, “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Christ Jesus the Lord of glory
indwells within the children of God the Father in the Spirit. “…the mystery
which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed
to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory
of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
(Colossians 1:26-27 NKJV)
Therefore, the true and genuine children of God are those who shine the
light of the Lord Jesus Christ on the earth this age and time. The world cannot
see Christ Jesus the Lord but can do through the children of light. We are that
much close and intimate to our Lord Jesus Christ. “We are in Him, He in us.” We
are totally and completely united with Jesus Christ crucified and resurrected.
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