After all this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God.” Revelation 19:1 (NIV)
The hero of
the story is a solitary mountain man named Sam Minard. As lonesome a life as Sam leads, he will
occasionally meet other mountain men in the course of trapping beaver. As the
men would part, they’d speak of meeting up at rendezvous. The rendezvous was a
kind of Mountain Man’s Company Picnic, with food, tall tales and contests of
skill with rifle and axe. All the
mountain men looked forward to this time of festivity “Next year at Ronnyvu.”
There’s a
rendezvous coming for all who have believed on Christ as their Lord and
Savior. Jesus said He was going to
His heavenly Father to prepare a place for us, and if He went away, He would
come back for us (John 14:2-3).
It will be a
time when all of us, both who are resurrected from the grave, and those of us still
alive, will be caught up into the air to meet Him and will always be with Him
(1st Thessalonians 4:13-18).
It will be a great reunion with believers from all ages where we will meet and greet one another and offer worship and praise to our God. Exactly
when this will be only the Father in heaven knows (Matthew 24:36), but we expect it to be very
soon.
The mountain
men were notorious for wanting to keep their lives private and being left alone
throughout the year. But the Lord
doesn’t want us to be that way at all.
His love, grace, and free gift of salvation is cause for great celebration
and He wants us to spread the word. It
is going to be a wonderful time of jubilee as we rendezvous, glorify and exalt
God’s only begotten Son.
The next
time we meet someone, let’s tell there’s a Rendezvous coming and they’ve got a
personal invitation from Jesus Himself.
It’s almost time to head out. He
wants to see you at that future and final gathering and He’s looking forward to you being there. I'm going, and I hope to see you there.
Ken
