TRUE BELIEVERS LONG TO BE LIKE JESUS

John 14:1-3 (NLV) - "Do not let your heart be troubled. You have put your trust in God, put your trust in Me also.  There are many rooms in My Father’s house.  If it were not so, I would have told you.  I am going away to make a place for you.  After I go and make a place for you, I will come back and take you with Me.  Then you may be where I am.  You know where I am going and you know how to get there."

1 Corinthians 15:51-53 (GNT) - "Listen to this secret truth: we shall not all die, but when the last trumpet sounds, we shall all be changed in an instant, as quickly as the blinking of an eye.   For when the trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised, never to die again, and we shall all be changed.  For what is mortal must be changed into what is immortal; what will die must be changed into what cannot die." 

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (ICB) - "Brothers, we want you to know about those who have died.  We do not want you to be sad as others who have no hope.  We believe that Jesus died and that He rose again.  So, because of Jesus, God will bring together with Jesus those who have died.  What we tell you now is the Lord’s own message.  We who are living now may still be living when the Lord comes again.  We who are living at that time will be with the Lord, but not before those who have already died.  The Lord Himself will come down from heaven.  There will be a loud command with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God.  And those who have died and were in Christ will rise first.  After that, those who are still alive at that time will be gathered up with them. We will be taken up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.  And we will be with the Lord forever.  So comfort each other with these words."

Titus 2:11-13 (TLB) - "For the free gift of eternal salvation is now being offered to everyone; and along with this gift comes the realization that God wants us to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures and to live good, God-fearing lives day after day, looking forward to that wonderful time we’ve been expecting, when His glory shall be seen—the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ."

1 John 3:1-3 (MEV) - "Consider how much love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.  Beloved, now are we children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be.  But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.  Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure."

We are like "caterpillars," but one day soon, He will change us into "butterflies!"