"All Saints' Day" is a church festival commemorating all saints. With the increasing number of church saints over the centuries, it became impossible to remember every saint on an individual day, with the result being an "All Saints' Day".

Of course, this church festival is based on a wrong understanding of the term "saints". We do not need to be declared a saint by some church authority to be a saint. Saints are simply Christians in whom the holy spirit dwells and works (Romans 8:9). It isn't the pope who makes us saints. It is God, who does so by giving us His holy spirit.

God remembers all His saints! If they have died already, His work with them is not yet complete. God's servant Job knew this: "If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, till my change comes. You shall call, and I will answer you; you shall desire the work of Your hands" (Job 14:14-15).

The saints who have died shall be made perfect, but not without those saints who are still alive: "And all these [the heroes of the faith], having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us" (Hebrews 11:39-40).

Our heavenly father, who knows the names of all the stars, knows exactly who His saints are!

What day is God's "All Saints' Day"? It is the day when the "last trumpet" shall sound: "For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (1 Corinthians 15:52).

There's wonderful news for everyone who will take part in God's "All Saints' Day": "And thus we shall always be with the Lord" (1 Thessalonians 4:17).

With these thoughts I wish everyone a rewarding Sabbath!