The Devotional – A Look at the Book #679

Meditate on this!

A good testimony these days can be made worthless; there is always someone nearby who would like to pick it apart, destroying the person and the testimony. Those that do simple minded; yet there is hope for the simple, to become wise they only need to know that the testimony of God stands true throughout time and eternity and no one is able to pick it apart.  Psalm 19:7b and Matthew 5:18

When I first heard about the gospel of Jesus Christ I was thirty-four and by May of 1975 when I was 35 I personally believed in Jesus and became born-again. The change from unbelief to belief was dramatic for me. The first book of the Holy Bible I read was Job and the first scripture I put to memory was Isaiah 1:18. The Book of Job was good for me in that I was able to see that life not based on what man can get out of it on his own; but what God is willing to provide if man is submissive to God’s Will. Also the Isaiah passage was important since knowing that I had been washed of my sins; being baptized into the death of Jesus and raised in the resurrected Life of Jesus; this Isaiah passage (even though the passage has to do with the restoration of the nation Israel rather than an individual like me and though I did not know this at the time) helped me to understand the completeness of God’s forgiveness. Our sins before our God are red, sort of makes me think that God sees the blood of His Son with each sin, yet because He loves us white as snow which will eventually melt into individual holiness and we mature in Christ. What joy fills my heart even to think of God’s love, 1 John 4:7-19.

2 Thessalonians

2:1-3 – Now, brethren, concerning the coming of the LORD Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you. Not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the Day of the LORD had come.

Do not be deceived… read the chapter and know that God has ordained His Word to provide comfort and not fear! Some teach fear by abandoning the literal interpretation of the Word of God for conjecture and personal gain and remember that the saints of God are reminded to wait on the LORD.

2:16-17 – Now may our LORD Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace. Comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.