I attended my 40th high school
reunion recently. Since I was one of the
"invisible" people in high school, or tried to be anyway, I was a bit
apprehensive about it. I wondered how my
old classmates would treat me. However,
after I met them, I discovered they really were pretty good people after all.
I didn't recognize most of my
classmates. Some told me I hadn't
changed a bit - even though I wore a hat, sunglasses and sported a beard. Maybe they were actually saying that I hadn't
gotten any better looking through the years.
Or maybe they had done like I did and asked somebody they knew who
somebody else was, then they could walk up to me and call me by name
Life had happened to all of the
class. Hardships, heartaches, the
unfairness of life had dealt blows.
Successes and failures had occurred.
We were all on the same plane - just people that had graduated 40 years
ago from the same high school.
As I drove home, God reminded me
of how I will be reunited with loved ones and some classmates in heaven. I realized, however, that some people would
not be there. Just like anyone that had dropped out of high school and didn't
graduate or had graduated a different year could not attend, anyone that has
not trusted Christ will not be in heaven.
That can change, they can trust Christ.
We can see them again in heaven and will recognize them (my personal
thoughts). Plus, we will see Jesus face to face. We will be altogether.
"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 4:17-18.
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