All The Saints

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What are we looking forward to? When we consider all who we have lost this side of eternity, how much more are we looking forward to meeting them again?

Death brings such sudden departure of those we love and long for. We yearn for reunion with those we love and miss who have died and gone before us. We look forward to the day of restoration and reunification with those we love and cherish. We long for resurrection.

God gave the Apostle John a reunion Revelation. John wrote, “I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’” (Revelation 7:9-10, ESV).

Resurrection, restoration, reunification, and worship-filled reunion is coming! We will gather again with all the saints who have gone before in glory and we will be glorified with them in the great multitude gathered before God in worship and in glory at his throne.

May we rejoice in the coming reunion—when we will be resurrected and restored and reunited with our Lord—with all the saints who have gone before.

In Christ alone, Robbie

A Collect For All Saints’ Day: “Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical Body of your Son: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys that you have prepared for those who truly love you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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