LW Baptist

By Rolland Coburn

Pastor

Jesus told his followers, “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 unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also,” (John 14:2-3). Believers look forward to this event, and call it the “blessed hope,” as Lelia Morris’s gospel song expresses: “Jesus is coming to earth again, What if it were today?

Coming in power and love to reign, What if it were today?

Coming to claim His chosen Bride, All the redeemed and purified, Over this whole earth scattered wide, What if it were today?

Glory, glory! Joy to my heart ‘twill bring; Glory, When we shall crown Him King.

Glory, glory! Haste to prepare the way; Glory, glory! Jesus will come someday.

Satan’s dominion will then be o’er O that it were today!

Sorrow and sighing shall be no more O that it were today!

Then shall the dead in Christ arise, Caught up to meet Him in the skies; When shall these glories meet our eyes?

What if it were today?

Faithful and true would He find us here If He should come today?

Watching in gladness and not in fear, If He should come today?

Signs of His coming multiply, Morning light breaks in eastern sky; Watch, for the time is drawing nigh What if it were today?”

Luke 21:28 says, “But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”