Our Hope is in you Lord!

(Matthew 12:21) “And in his name the Gentiles will hope."

The accuracy of scripture and the importance their instruction plays in our life’s as an imperative in accordance to our wellbeing for this life and the life to come, is crucial. Many Christians do accept the importance of this truth, but will rely on their own interpretation or understanding to any given text. Because of our own deceitful hearts we at times like to fashion text from scripture into the molds of our lives, whatever suits our needs, better put, our lusts! But before long we are taught by God the Holy Spirit through scripture and through life to reason with a sound mind. What then do I mean by this? I am convinced about this truth; The Lord Jesus came to do the will of His Father, Jehovah God; “Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.”” (John 4:34); and part of that will is to get us (believers) home to heaven. 

But how do I know this is true, “I know because I know”, is often coined and I too have lay claim to the phrase, but are you willing to place eternity and how it plays out in your life on a warm fuzzy feeling, be careful! We must learn to settle on the Holy Scripture as out text book for life. If not, we may just as well play Russian roulette and hope the bullet designed for death does not find the chamber as we randomly pull the trigger.

My concern for every believer is that some seem to undermine the importance of the Word of God, the Bible! Get it wrong here and it will be like building a house on sand, as soon as the storm hits we come toppling down. In other words as long as life pans out to our liking, we will hold to our faith, but as soon as the pressures of life seem to push down on us, we come toppling down.

It is imperative to hold to Scripture as the be all and end all, it gives direction to our lives. It must come first and not second. Faith has its part to play in application as it proves to us where we stand in this relationship with almighty God. We will be tested, not that God needs to see our hearts on any given topic as He obviously knows all things, but our hearts are then expose through the trial and we see ourselves for who we really are. The trial of life must never captivate us above the Word of God. We must not let them rob us of the promises from God.

Twelve spies went to spy out the Promised Land even though God had promised it to Abraham and then to Moses, so based on His word it was a given. It would happen! Although all the Israelites who came out of Egypt had been in the same company marching through the desert; they all witnessed the same things; manna from heaven, the drowning of the Egyptian Soldiers in the Red Sea and water gushing from a rock. However not all believed God’s Word! Ten of the spies related to the trial of life as unconquerable, they brought back a bad report! They said that the land could not be occupied. But as for Joshua and Caleb, they believed God at His Word even though there were giants in the land and they knew that God was about to give them their inheritance, the Promised Land!

Regardless of the trials of life we must believe our great heavenly Father is in perfect control and take His Word on face value, we must! To find the deeper truths to scripture takes more of an intensive study and we must study to understand, but the promise of God is not dependant on how much we understand but rather on His promise.

May we learn to rely and rest upon His written Word, the Lord Jesus has begun the work and He will complete it on that day, whenever that may be for each of us individually, or when the trump of God may sound.

It is the cares of life that look to choke so many, by they will not exhaust our breath, if our eyes are fixed upon His Word, the Lord Jesus Christ!

Be then encouraged to look to Him and remember…

“Babes in Christ.”

- 1Co_3:1

“Are you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood as he is. You are as much an adopted child of God as any other believer. An infant is as truly a child of its parents as is the full-grown man. You are as completely justified, for your justification is not a thing of degrees: your little faith has made you clean every whit. You have as much right to the precious things of the covenant as the most advanced believers, for your right to covenant mercies lies not in your growth, but in the covenant itself; and your faith in Jesus is not the measure, but the token of your inheritance in him. You are as rich as the richest, if not in enjoyment, yet in real possession. The smallest star that gleams is set in heaven; the faintest ray of light has affinity with the great orb of day. In the family register of glory the small and the great are written with the same pen. You are as dear to your Father’s heart as the greatest in the family. Jesus is very tender over you. You are like the smoking flax; a rougher spirit would say, “put out that smoking flax, it fills the room with an offensive odour!” but the smoking flax he will not quench. You are like a bruised reed; and any less tender hand than that of the Chief Musician would tread upon you or throw you away, but he will never break the bruised reed. Instead of being downcast by reason of what you are, you should triumph in Christ. Am I but little in Israel? Yet in Christ I am made to sit in heavenly places. Am I poor in faith? Still in Jesus I am heir of all things. Though “less than nothing I can boast, and vanity confess.” yet, if the root of the matter be in me I will rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the God of my salvation.” (C.H.Spurgeon)

Wherever we may be on the Celestial road, whether it be just passed the starting line, near the end of our journey or anywhere in-between, let us remember the promises of God and hold fast to them and let today be filled with the words of this song; “very, very soon we are going to see our king.”

Our great God and King will get us home, praise His glorious name!

We will say with the psalmist; "And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.” (Psalms 39:7) 

Signing off

Tyrone