“It’s Coming!”

It doesn’t seem to happen too frequently, but sometimes, after a thunderstorm, when the grey clouds still fill the sky, the sky becomes filled with this strange yellow light.  I think it usually portends more storms.

This happened yesterday.  The night before, thunderstorms broke the silence of the night and, subsequently, frightened our dog.  The storms continued intermittently throughout the day.  Late in the afternoon, after the rain stopped, I took Ellie outside for a short walk and noticed the yellow and grey sky.  As we were walking, I noticed a few isolated drops on my arms. I turned Ellie back toward the house, and the droplets increased.  We were almost at the house when I heard the sound.  It wasn’t loud, but I knew what it was.  It was the sound of advancing rain.

I told Ellie to hurry up to get home before the rain reached us.

“It’s coming!” I said to her.  Just as we made it through the door, another wave of heavy rain reached the house.

The sound of the advancing rain and my telling Ellie that it was coming made me wonder about an event we Christians have probably thought of often in our lives. 

“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, 

that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: 

and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”

1 Thessalonians  4:14-18

I wonder if before we hear the voice of the archangel and the trump of God, we will have some sort of feeling, some sense that “He’s coming!” So much of the human experience involves anticipation.  Will we know at all what is about to transpire, or will we be surprised when we are “caught up”?  

I can’t answer my questions, but I do know this one answer. However these events transpire, they will be perfect.  “As for God, His way is perfect:” Psalm 18:30.

 Not only will there be nothing lacking, but it will be “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think,” Ephesians 3:20.

As we often say, our greatest days are ahead of us.