I just got back from a meeting at a local coffee house called Red Eye coffee. While I was there I bumped into several people that I know. This particular coffee house started off as a ministry of a church in town and as such, it gained the patronage of several fellow church types like myself. So while I was there I saw Peter and Blake and Taylor and a couple of other people. It was an interesting experience because although I didn’t know they would be there, when I saw them, there was kind of this feeling of “well, of course they’re here.”
That feeling of “well, of course they’re here” is a little bit of the feeling that we have on All Saints. We imagine ourselves being in the coffee houses and bars of the Resurrection (of course, they are going to have coffee houses and bars in the Resurrection), and seeing the saints that God has saved by His grace. When we meet up with them, and when they introduce us to fellow saints that we haven’t met yet, like Khahn from Vietnam or Gunnar from Iceland, we’re going to say to ourselves, “well, of course they’re here.”
That’s the beauty of All Saints, that people will even look at us and say “Well, of course they’re here,” not because of our righteousness, but because Jesus loved us, died for us, and rose again from the tomb so that by His righteousness people can be unsurprised that even we are in the Resurrection together with them.