“ ‘For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.’ ” – Matthew 18:20
This is a wonderful promise. Whether believers come together in a church or a home Bible study or even just two together (like husband and wife) to fellowship around the name of the Lord Jesus, He is there also!
The Scriptures often speak of our togetherness with Him and therefore with one another. When we followed Him in baptism, we “have become united with Him in the likeness of His death” – Romans 6:5. Similarly when He rose from the dead, God “made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” – Ephesians 2:5-6. One day, we are told, “if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him” – Romans 8:17.
In our Christian walk right now, we are being “fitly framed together” as a “holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit” – Ephesians 2:21-22. We ought, therefore, to be “knit together in love” – Colossians 2:2, “made complete in the same mind” – 1 Corinthians 1:10 and “striving together for the faith of the gospel” – Philippians 1:27.
Then one day, when Christ returns – “Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man” – Revelation 14:14, and He gathers His elect – “Then He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped” – Revelation 14:16; and the dead in Christ are raised – “we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord” – 1 Thessalonians 4:17.
So, when we are together with Him through the indwelling Spirit of Christ, “In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled…with the power of our Lord Jesus” – 1 Corinthians 5:4, whether in a congregation of thousands or just together with one or two Christian companions, rejoice in His presence, for He is our mighty Creator; our Lord, loving Saviour and Redeemer; our Shepherd; our caring Comforter; our unerring Guide; and our soon-coming King.
“ ‘Behold, I am coming quickly!’ ” – Revelation 22:7
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