Quietly Wait For the Salvation of the Lord.

An expected end.

Ecc_9:5  For the living know that they shall die

This is truth. Some people are exposed to death and what it means from a very young age, others are protected from it and don't experience it for many years. Some learn of death without any real connection to it, but others learn firsthand.

Eventually everyone knows that they are going to die, that this is their end. Their bodies will cease to live and they are gone from the living world, they become ash or dust either quickly through cremation or slowly through decay. They leave us, we will leave others, our presence is gone, their presence is gone.

Jer 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 

Jer 29:12  Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 

An expected end. Some through illness and disease know that death is coming, others die unexpectedly in accidents and unknown health conditions. There is debate on which experience is preferred. The LORD tells us that His thoughts are of peace not evil and He wants to give us an expected end.  The end the LORD desires for all of us is eventual eternal life. The promise that was made when man first sin, the hope that death's sleep is not permanent, that there is a chance for life everlasting. 

Lam 3:26  It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. 

We can know of God's salvation, and comprehend through His grace that this life we now live with all its suffering, is temporary. The horrors of this life are many and this doesn't mean that we will escape them. God loving us doesn't mean we suffer less. God loving us means eternal life, God loving us means we receive a promise, and that promise is salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Abraham received this promise… Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses… all of these were given the same promise WE are given today.

Heb 11:39  And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 

Heb 11:40  God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. 

We will all receive the promise when our Savior returns and takes us home with  Him. Until that expected end, while we quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord, we hope and we pray to endure all this temporary life gives to us. May we all look beyond this world, to the world to come in time, to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Please, Lord, give us this hope, give us Your peace because this world is trying to take you from Us, to keep Your peace from us. All in Your love, all through Your will- now and forever.