Day 48: "The Living One"

Revelation 1:17-18 (ESV) 

"When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades."

I love how He (Jesus) says not to be afraid, and then gives us such intense reasons to fear Him. But He starts with saying not to be afraid, because yes, He is the first and the last, and He holds the keys to death and Hades but because He died and rose again He can use those keys to keep anyone who would trust Him safe from hell forever.
-L.