Once every four years we are treated to a month long football fiesta known globally as the World Cup. This year’s edition is held for the very first time in the African continent, in South Africa. If there is one thing that would always remind us of the 2010 World Cup it must be the vuvuzela. It is a plastic trumpet, a meter long, brightly coloured and sounds like an elephant! Imagine the noise a thousand of these trumpets can make in a stadium. The atmosphere would be exhilarating.
In Corinthians 15:52 the Apostle Paul says that a trumpet will sound. I am sure this trumpet would make an equally grand entrance as the vuvuzela but not because of the sound but due to the effect it would have on Christians. Verse 52 says, ‘For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised and we shall all be changed.‘ We will be changed from mortal beings to immortality. Death will no longer have a hold on us because it had been defeated by the grace of God through the Lord Jesus Christ. The sound of the trumpet will signal the victory the Lord Jesus Christ has over death. There will be no more Christians dying. Wow! What a wonderful day that would be.
Therefore, it is important that Christians be steadfast, strong in their faith and unwavering. We need to hold fast to what we have – salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. This should encourage us to be abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that whatever we do for the Lord is not in vain.
We would not know how loud the trumpet would be but we know that if we go about our Father’s business and help in the growth of the assembly here in Nilai Gospel Chapel, the sound of that trumpet would be more powerful than a thousand vuvuzelas because we know what we will receive and whom we will see – the Lord Jesus Christ.
by Arnold Nathan
NGC Newsletter for July/Aug 2010
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