God is Trustworthy (Heb. 10:23)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 05-12-03

 

My Worship Time                                                      Focus:  God is Trustworthy

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Hebrews 10:23

 

            1.  Message of the verse:  “23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;” (NASB) “Without wavering, let us hold tightly to the hope we say we have, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.”  (NLT)

            This verse is another of the things that we as believers should do in light of all that Jesus Christ has done for us, and that is we are to hold fast, without wavering, to our hope, and the reason that we are to do this is because God is the One who has promised and He is faithful.  As stated in other entries of my “spiritual diary” the word in the Greek that is translated hope is a noun and so it is not used in terms of a wish that may or may not come true, but it is used as something certain, and I believe the most noted term is in Titus where Paul speaks on the hope of the return of Christ at the rapture.  This is one of the believer’s hopes that is certain and in light of these hopes that are our promises we as believers should go about the work of the Lord.

 

            2.  Spiritual meaning for my life today:  As I think of this verse in light of the troubles of our investments I can be certain of one thing and that is that God is faithful, and that my hope is in my Faithful God who has given many promises to believers that pertain to this situation that we are in.  I must say that the Lord has used this situation in order to get the attention of many who are in the same boat, and I do believe that we all of us come out of this that the ones who know that the Lord is in control of this and trust Him to work it out for His glory and our good will grow and learn the most.  I pray for both Gary and Andy who are in the middle of this situation that the Lord would continue to bring about His will for them, that He would give the peace that passes all understanding to Gary, and that He would use this to work a work of maturity and revival in the heart of Andy so that Andy will be used of God in a new and fresh way.

 

The Word of God was exactly what I needed to hear this morning.