Encourage one another with these words

1 Thess. 4:14-18

Life is hard, and will always be hard. But God tells us to “encourage one another.”

For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died. For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Though we may toil and suffer, one day we will be relieved. One day our Lord will come and we will be caught up with Him in the clouds and we will be with Him forever. What a day that will be. What a hope! What a loving hope! And it will come true.

Or…

Are we discouraged by it? Are we afraid that the day might come? Are we still not saved?