Bible League: Living His Word "When I make a promise, that promise is true. It will happen."— Isaiah 45:23 ERV The God of the Bible makes many promises. The Bible is full of them, and the great majority of the promises God makes are promises for good to those who love Him and serve Him. The promises God makes are more than mere words—they are true and will come to pass. He is not a liar and a deceiver like the devil. He does not make promises in order to trick people and destroy them. He is also not like men: fickle, capricious, and erratic. You can believe God's promises. "The one who lives forever, the God of Israel, does not lie and will not change his mind. He is not like a man who is always changing his mind" (1 Samuel 15:29). Speaking truth is what you can expect from God; it is one of His primary characteristics. "No, even if everyone else is a liar, God will always do what he says..." (Romans 3:4). We can build our lives on the firm foundation of God's promises. The words in our verse for today are words for those times in life when the fulfillment of God's promises seems far off. They are words to lift you up and give you hope. Take them to heart, then, and let them be the balm that your worried soul needs. Bible in a Year Old Testament ReadingHosea 5-8 Hosea 5 -- Judgments against the Priests, People, and Princes for Their Manifold Sins NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Hosea 6 -- Exhortations to Repent; Israel's Refusal NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Hosea 7 -- Ephraim's Iniquity NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Hosea 8 -- Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB New Testament Reading Revelation 1 Revelation 1 -- John's Greeting to the Seven Churches and Vision on Patmos NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Reading Plan Courtesy of Christian Classics Etherial Library. Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion And those who are rich should boast that God has humbled them. They will fade away like a little flower in the field. The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little flower droops and falls, and its beauty fades away. In the same way, the rich will fade away with all of their achievements. Insight If wealth, power, and status mean nothing to God, why do we attribute so much importance to them and so much honor to those who possess them? Do your material possessions give you goals and your only reason for living? If they were gone, what would be left? Challenge What you have in your heart, not your bank account, matters to God and endures for eternity. Morning and Evening by Spurgeon 1 Thessalonians 4:17 So shall we ever be with the Lord.Even the sweetest visits from Christ, how short they are--and how transitory! One moment our eyes see him, and we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, but again a little time and we do not see him, for our beloved withdraws himself from us; like a roe or a young hart he leaps over the mountains of division; he is gone to the land of spices, and feeds no more among the lilies. "If today he deigns to bless us With a sense of pardoned sin, He to-morrow may distress us, Make us feel the plague within." Oh, how sweet the prospect of the time when we shall not behold him at a distance, but see him face to face: when he shall not be as a wayfaring man tarrying but for a night, but shall eternally enfold us in the bosom of his glory. We shall not see him for a little season, but "Millions of years our wondering eyes, Shall o'er our Saviour's beauties rove; And myriad ages we'll adore, The wonders of his love." In heaven there shall be no interruptions from care or sin; no weeping shall dim our eyes; no earthly business shall distract our happy thoughts; we shall have nothing to hinder us from gazing forever on the Sun of Righteousness with unwearied eyes. Oh, if it be so sweet to see him now and then, how sweet to gaze on that blessed face for aye, and never have a cloud rolling between, and never have to turn one's eyes away to look on a world of weariness and woe! Blest day, when wilt thou dawn? Rise, O unsetting sun! The joys of sense may leave us as soon as they will, for this shall make glorious amends. If to die is but to enter into uninterrupted communion with Jesus, then death is indeed gain, and the black drop is swallowed up in a sea of victory. Daily Light on the Daily Path John 10:29 "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.2 Timothy 1:12 For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day. 2 Timothy 4:18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Romans 8:37-39 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. • For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, • nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Colossians 3:3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? 2 Thessalonians 2:16,17 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, • comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word. 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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