For Reading: Hebrews 10:19-31
"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful." (10:23)
The Bible is a veritable mine of information on the fact of God's faithfulness. More than 4,000 years ago He said: "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease" (Gen. 8:22). Every year furnishes us with fresh evidence that He has not gone back on His Word.
In Genesis 15:13-14, God declared to Abraham: "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and ill-treated four hundred years. But... afterwards they will come out with great possessions." Did that happen? Exodus 12:41 says: "At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord's divisions left Egypt."
The prophet Isaiah predicted that a virgin would conceive and bear a son whose name would be Immanuel (Isa. 7:14). Centuries later the prediction came to pass. In Galatians 4:4 we read: "But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman."
I wish I had the space to take you through the pages of Scripture and show you how faithful God has been to His Word. But you have a Bible for yourself; study it. Read it to know God. This is the basis of our confidence in Him. And this is why the Bible fairly bulges with this great and gripping truth. The more of God's truth we pack into our souls, the better equipped we are for the road that lies ahead.
Prayer:
Gracious and loving Father, the more I learn about Your nature and character, the more I want to know. Just these glimpses I am getting set my soul on fire to know You more intimately. Take me deeper, dear Lord. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Further Study:
Mal. 3:7; Psa. 102:27; Psa. 103:17; James 1:1-17
What did the Lord declare to Israel?
How did James put it?
Sar, Hebrews 10:26 really goes along with some comments you made recently. "For if we sin purposely after we have received the knowledge of truth, there no longer remains a slaughter offering for sins..." You know how we were trying to decide when grace "runs out"? Well, it's pretty clear that once God teaches you something, he expects you to walk in it and not continue to make the same mistake.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I really loved all the scripture readings today, but especially the main scripture in Hebrews. Guess it's just one of my favorite books?
What are your thoughts? Anyone?