Bible League: Living His Word God is strong and can keep you from falling. He can bring you before his glory without any wrong in you and give you great joy.On what basis can we make it all the way to the glory of the next life and everything it includes? Does it all depend on us? Does it all depend on our ability to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? Not according to our verse for today. According to our verse, it all depends on God. It all depends on God's strength. We will make it through to the end because God is strong. He is the awesome and almighty Lord of heaven and earth who controls the destiny of all things and He can make sure that we stand firm to the end. He can make sure that we receive the three things promised in our verse. First, He can keep us from falling. That is, God can keep us from falling away from faith in God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. He is the one who predestined us to be conformed to the image of His son and He can keep us from falling away from the son (Romans 8:29). Even though we may still sin, we will not abandon the faith. Although we may stumble, we will not fall, for the Lord upholds us with His hand (Psalm 37:24). Second, God can bring us before His glory without any wrong in us. That is, God's glory will be revealed on Judgement Day and He can make sure that at that time we are "blameless and holy" (I Thessalonians 3:13) and "without blemish and free from accusation" (Colossians 1:22). Our righteousness before Him will not be due to anything we have done, but because He has sustained our faith in Jesus Christ. Finally, He can give us great joy. On Judgement Day we will have great joy because we will be found acceptable in the sight of God. As a result, we will inherit all the blessings of the next life. We will have great joy knowing that we have been rescued from sin, sorrow, and an eternity in hell. If you have stumbled, don't forget that God is strong. He will keep you from falling all the way down. Bible in a Year Old Testament ReadingProverbs 21, 22 Proverbs 21 -- The king's heart is in the Lord's hand like the watercourses. NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Proverbs 22 -- A good name is more desirable than great riches NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB New Testament Reading 2 Corinthians 4 2 Corinthians 4 -- Treasures in Jars of Clay NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Reading Plan Courtesy of Christian Classics Etherial Library. Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them.Insight Does anyone have an excuse for not believing in God? The Bible answers an emphatic no. God has revealed what he is like in and through his creation. Every person, therefore, either accepts or rejects God. Don't be fooled. Challenge When the day comes for God to judge your response to him, no excuses will be accepted. Begin today to give your devotion and worship to him. Morning and Evening by Spurgeon Psalm 101:1 I will sing of mercy and judgment.Faith triumphs in trial. When reason is thrust into the inner prison, with her feet made fast in the stocks, faith makes the dungeon walls ring with her merry notes as she cries, "I will sing of mercy and of judgment. Unto thee, O Lord, will I sing." Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath. Faith looks up at the cloud, and sees that "'Tis big with mercy and shall break In blessings on her head." There is a subject for song even in the judgments of God towards us. For, first, the trial is not so heavy as it might have been; next, the trouble is not so severe as we deserved to have borne; and our affliction is not so crushing as the burden which others have to carry. Faith sees that in her worst sorrow there is nothing penal; there is not a drop of God's wrath in it; it is all sent in love. Faith discerns love gleaming like a jewel on the breast of an angry God. Faith says of her grief, "This is a badge of honor, for the child must feel the rod;" and then she sings of the sweet result of her sorrows, because they work her spiritual good. Nay, more, says Faith, "These light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." So Faith rides forth on the black horse, conquering and to conquer, trampling down carnal reason and fleshly sense, and chanting notes of victory amid the thickest of the fray. "All I meet I find assists me In my path to heavenly joy: Where, though trials now attend me, Trials never more annoy. "Blest there with a weight of glory, Still the path I'll ne'er forget, But, exulting, cry, it led me To my blessed Saviour's seat." Daily Light on the Daily Path Psalm 118:7 The LORD is for me among those who help me; Therefore I will look with satisfaction on those who hate me.Psalm 20:1,2,5,7,8 For the choir director. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high! • May He send you help from the sanctuary And support you from Zion! • We will sing for joy over your victory, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners. May the LORD fulfill all your petitions. • Some boast in chariots and some in horses, But we will boast in the name of the LORD, our God. • They have bowed down and fallen, But we have risen and stood upright. Isaiah 59:19 So they will fear the name of the LORD from the west And His glory from the rising of the sun, For He will come like a rushing stream Which the wind of the LORD drives. 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. Romans 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? Psalm 118:6 The LORD is for me; I will not fear; What can man do to me? Daniel 3:17 "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. |
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