与朋友和爱的人重聚是非常值得珍惜和纪念的时刻，但是我们所有人将会有一个最大的重聚——耶稣再来。

在创造亚当夏娃之后，上帝赐福第七日定为安息圣日。每周我们在安息日相聚纪念祂的爱、能力和权柄。

到第七日，神造物的工已经完毕，就在第七日歇了他一切的工，安息了。上帝赐福给第七日，定为圣日，因为在这日上帝歇了祂一切创造的工，就安息了。（创世记2:2,3）

但是撒旦进入了世界，引诱亚当夏娃犯罪。因此导致了善恶之大斗争。幸运的是，上帝的爱使我们有了逃生的方法。

在启示录14:6中的第一位天使的信息是上帝爱的明证。经上记着说：“我又看见另有一位天使飞在空中，有永远的福音要传给住在地上的人，就是各国各族各方各民。”这永远的福音就是圣父、圣子、圣灵的救赎计划。

这计划透过上帝的儿子——耶稣来显明。祂来到世上拯救人类脱离罪恶。自此，祂偿还了罪的代价，完全了律法。

现在，祂在天上至圣所中作为大祭司为我们代求。借此，祂渴望每天和我们个人团聚。

我们每天必须通过圣经研究和祷告来与主联系，然后我们就能理解我们从哪里来，为什么在这里，以及我们将到哪里去。

同时，圣经中耶稣的比喻让我们瞥见盛大重聚一幕。那就是在路加福音15:11-14中的浪子的故事。

经上说：“耶稣又说，一个人有两个儿子。小儿子对父亲说，父亲，请你把我应得的家业分给我。他父亲就把产业分给他们。过了不多几日，小儿子就把他一切所有的，都收拾起来，往远方去了。在那里任意放荡，浪费赀财。既耗尽了一切所有的，又遇着那地方大遭饥荒，就穷苦起来。”

故事继续讲到，年轻人找到了喂猪的工作。这是一个犹太人最底层的工作，但是他抓住了这个机会，否则他就要死了。最终，他太饿了以至于别无选择只能吃猪食来存活。

之后，他在17节中有所反省。“他醒悟过来，就说，我父亲有多少的雇工，口粮有余，我倒在这里饿死吗？”

因此，他计划回家，请求父亲把他当作一个雇工，因为他感到不配称为父亲的儿子。

父亲一直在路上盼着，最后盼到了儿子回家。同样的，上帝也从来没有放弃等待我们每天归向与他重聚。

20节中，来到了美好的团聚：“于是起来往他父亲那里去。相离还远，他父亲看见，就动了慈心”

父亲“跑去抱着他的颈项，连连与他亲嘴。”这暗指，上帝也一直在准备和我们团聚。

然后，父亲赶快把那上好的袍子拿出来给他儿子穿上，把戒指戴在他指头上，把鞋穿在他脚上。同样，我们每天都需要基督公义的义袍。

关于这一点，基督在启示录3:17-20中告诉我们。“你说，我是富足，已经发了财，一样都不缺。却不知道你是那困苦，可怜，贫穷，瞎眼，赤身的。我劝你向我买火炼的金子，叫你富足。又买白衣穿上，叫你赤身的羞耻不露出来。又买眼药擦你的眼睛，使你能看见。凡我所疼爱的，我就责备管教他。所以你要发热心，也要悔改。看哪，我站在门外叩门。若有听见我声音就开门的，我要进到他那里去，我与他，他与我一同坐席。”

继续回到这个故事，父亲为他回来的儿子举行了盛大的宴会。这代表了将来在天庭的盛大的团聚——耶稣即将复临，就像寓言中浪子的父亲，上帝随时准备好了欢迎我们。

关于这一点，怀爱伦在《基督比喻实训》第205-206页中提醒我们。“不要听从仇敌的暗示，非等到你使自己变得好一些……你如果等到那时再来，就永远来不了……起来到你父亲那里去吧。祂会远远地前来迎接你。只要你向祂迈出悔改的第一步，祂就会赶紧用祂无穷之爱的膀臂拥抱你……人所献上的每一句祈祷，不论多么含糊其辞，人所流出的每一滴眼泪，不论多么隐秘，人所怀寻求上帝的真诚愿望，不论多么微弱，圣灵都会来接应。”

你准备好在那次最盛大的聚会中与耶稣相遇了吗？你愿意打开心门让祂进来了吗？

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Reunions with our friends and loved ones are memorable moments to cherish. But there’s this biggest reunion of all – Jesus’ second coming.

After creating Adam and Eve, God blessed the seventh day as the holy Sabbath. It served as their weekly reunion wherein to remind them of His love, power, and authority.

“And on the seventh day, God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made” (Genesis 2:2,3).

But Satan entered the world and tempted Adam and Eve to sin. Hence, it resulted in the great controversy between good and evil. Fortunately, God’s love for us made a way of escape.

This love of God is evident in the message of the first angel in Revelation 14:6. It says, “I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel.” This everlasting gospel is the plan of salvation by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

It manifested through Jesus, the Son of God, Who came to earth to save humanity from sin. Doing so, He paid the price of sin and satisfied the law.

Now, He is interceding for us as our High Priest in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary. With this, He longs for a personal, daily reunion with us.

As such, we must connect with God daily through Bible study and prayer. We can then understand where we’ve come from, why we’re here, and where we’re going.

Meanwhile, one of Jesus’ parables gives us a glimpse of the greatest reunion. That is the story of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-14.

This passage goes, “A certain man had two sons, and the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.”

Continuing the story, the young man found job feeding pigs. It was the worst job a Jew would have, but he grabbed it. Or else he would die. Eventually, he got so hungry that he had no choice but to eat the pigs’ food only to survive.

But then, he realized something in verse 17. “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!”

Because of this, he planned to return home. Then, he would ask his father to make him one of his servants. It was because he felt he was not worthy of being his son anymore.

The father always checked the road, anticipating his son to come home finally. Similarly, God never gives up waiting on us to go to Him in daily reunion.

Then, here’s the fantastic reunion in verse 20: “And he arose and came to his father.  But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion.”

The father “ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.” As an implication, God is always ready for a reunion with us.

With this, the father gave his son the best robe, a ring of authority, and sandals for his feet. Likewise, we need Christ’s robe of righteousness every day.

Concerning this, Christ speaks to us in Revelation 3:17-20. “Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door. I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.”

Continuing the story, the father initiated a huge banquet and party for his returned son. It represents the greatest reunion there will be in heaven someday — Christ’s soon return. Like this prodigal son’s father, God is always ready to welcome us.

In connection to this, Ellen White has a reminder for us in Christ’s Object Lessons, pp. 205-206. “Do not listen to the enemy’s suggestions to stay away from Christ until you have made yourself better…If you wait until then, you will never come…Arise and go to your Father. He will meet you a great way off. If you take even one step toward Him in repentance, He will hasten to enfold you in His arms of infinite love…Never a prayer is offered, however faltering, never a tear is shed, however secret, never a sincere desire after God is cherished, however feeble, but the Spirit of God goes forth to meet it.”

Are you ready to meet Jesus in that greatest reunion? Have you opened the door of your heart to let Him in?