Words of Comfort

“Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” (I Thessalonians 4:18)

To be acquainted with the facts of the Second Coming of Jesus and to know He could call up the dead in Christ in the resurrection and take up the Christians in the next moment should be frightening to the unsaved. To the lost and unprepared the subject of the Second Coming is given as a warning. 

While the Second Coming of Jesus is a fearful warning to the lost, it is comfort and hope to the saved. The Bible is addressing Christians in our text. The original readers were relatively new Christians with questions about their saved, departed loved ones. They are referred to here as the “dead in Christ.”

What God says to them He says to us. “Comfort one another with these words.” Loved ones are taken from us in death. Perhaps they had a lingering illness. Or, maybe they died instantly of a heart attack or accident. Those remaining need comfort. There is no better comfort to the bereaved than the subject of the second coming of Jesus and the reunion of the saved that will follow His return. 

Read and read again this great passage where our text for today is found. Comfort one another with these words.