Heavenly Father I praise You for today and for walking with me through good and bad times. I praise You for knowing my heart and measuring me accordingly. I praise You for this season, though it has been a tough walk.
Your word says, “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall be forever with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words.” [1Thessalonians 4:16-18] If I did not have this hope right now, I am not sure how much more life I would invest into. Yesterday [17th] was my son Philip’s birthday. He has been gone 6 years now, and it still feels like yesterday. I hope that I will see him again in heaven. I hope that I stay faithful to reach heaven. I pray the rest of my family will too, but this death has caused some to doubt. I can only pray for them and bring them before You.
Praise be to the God and Father of my Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts me in all my troubles, so that I can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort I myself have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into my life, so also through Christ my comfort overflows. If I am distressed, it is for my comfort and salvation; if I am comforted, it will produce in me patient endurance of the same sufferings other Christians have suffered. Grace and peace will come to me from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for my sins to rescue me from the present evil age, according to the will of my God and Father, to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. [2Corinthians 1:3-7; Galatians 1:3-5]