The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast VIDEO
Oct 5, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
Hello, friend. I'm glad you're here today. In today’s Encouraging Word, we look at Elijah’s extraordinary departure and the powerful reminder that death does not have the final word for those who…
Max LucadoHost
Scheduled on your heavenly calendar is a moment in which your heavenly Father is going to come at an unexpected hour.
Because even though this world is gray and the world that God has promised is golden, we sometimes prefer the grayness that we know over the unknown.
For that reason, Scripture offers no small amount of assurances to prepare us for that exit, for that departure.
I mean, who among us has not felt comfort from the twenty-third Psalm? "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." Or the words of Jesus spoken the night before His crucifixion, "Do not let your hearts be troubled.
I will come back and take you to be with me, that you also may be where I am." Or the Apostle Paul, in words that should really be chiseled on every tombstone, "Death has been swallowed up in victory.
Where, O death, where, O death, is your victory? And where, O death, is your sting?" The message is consistent from Old Testament to New, from David the king to Paul the apostle, and that is we do not know the hour, but that hour is not something that we need to fear.
Scheduled on your heavenly calendar is a moment in which your heavenly Father is going to come at an unexpected hour.
Because even though this world is gray and the world that God has promised is golden, we sometimes prefer the grayness that we know over the unknown.
For that reason, Scripture offers no small amount of assurances to prepare us for that exit, for that departure.
I mean, who among us has not felt comfort from the twenty-third Psalm? "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." Or the words of Jesus spoken the night before His crucifixion, "Do not let your hearts be troubled.
I will come back and take you to be with me, that you also may be where I am." Or the Apostle Paul, in words that should really be chiseled on every tombstone, "Death has been swallowed up in victory.
Where, O death, where, O death, is your victory? And where, O death, is your sting?" The message is consistent from Old Testament to New, from David the king to Paul the apostle, and that is we do not know the hour, but that hour is not something that we need to fear.
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