I share this with you today because it is easy to get caught up in a routine where we sometimes don't feel like we are a part of a family. With the things we do on the daily and the way the world works, it is easy to focus on only yourself. Especially right now for college seniors. Each one of us are in the process of searching and applying for jobs and we are rushing around trying to get the things done that we have to. For us seniors why would we even want to really focus on others right now?
...It's easy to live with that attitude at this time of year.
For those of you who are younger, you might be watching the seniors and you are just ready to move onto the next step as well. When you want to skip right over a year or a couple of years of life you are automatically start to think about only yourself.
If you're in the work force right now, you wake up and go to work everyday. How you view what you do is important. Are you just going to work? Are you making ends meet? Or is your work a calling?
In a book that I am currently reading, one of the authors examples he uses is hotel maids. Hotel maids can view their job the way most people would...a maid. Someone who cleans rooms all day for a living. Or they can think about how active they are on daily basis and use what they do as exercise.
These different groups of people have a tendency to become trapped. Trapped in the idea of "self" and forgetting we are a part of God's family.
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. (Revelation 7:9)
What I love about this verse is that there was a great multitude that no one count count. People from every nation, tribe, people and language. There had to be a ton of people there to not even be able to count. Like I cannot wrap my mind around the fact that there was that many people. Every nation, tribe, people and language.
One of the questions that came to my mind when I was writing this was how many people are in heaven right now? We know the population for all of the world and that is a big number, so to not be able to count all of the people that were at throne puts me in awe.
One of the elders asked who all of the people in the white robes were and where they came from.
John responded with this: "Sir you know, these are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb.
This my friends, is what heaven will be like.
"they are before the throne of God
and serve him day and night in his temple;
and he who sits on the throne
will shelter them with his presence.
'Never again will they hunger;
never again will they thirst.
The sun will not beat down on them,'
nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb at the center of the thorns will be their shepherd;
'he will lead them to springs of living water,'
'And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
Those words are amazing. We have been sealed through committing our live to Christ. A seal on a scroll or document identified and protected its contents. God places his own seal on his followers, identifying them as his own and guaranteeing his protection over their souls. Our physical bodies may be beaten, maimed, or even destroyed, but nothing can harm our souls when we have been sealed by God. Those words are what our lives will be like when we die and go to heaven/or the rapture happens. I hope these words give you something to look forward too and I hope you are encouraged by the size of our family.
"No one could count them..."
We are a part of something that is so much bigger than ourselves ever living and breathing moment of our lives. Even when death comes, we will be a part of a family for eternity.
So when you are in a place where you feel all along and isolated, remember that you have something to look forward and you are a part of the largest family ever.
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