The Devotional - A Look at the Book #878

by Jesse Abel

Thoughts from Papa “J”

 

Have you ever used a punching bag for exercise? It is fun if you can get the rhythm down. Occasionally there are relatives in one’s family that one might like to practice that rhythm on. Then the Word of the LORD comes to mind and God’s solution is far better. Proverbs 17:10

 

Good Morning

 

2 Corinthians 3:7-18 – As many know I started writing in 2008 and through these brief years the stories and events of life have unfolded in many ways. Stories of military life, home life, firefighting, medical emergencies, the birds (fatso and skinny) and a host of odds and ends that I hope have been encouraging.

 

We all have stories and what is exciting is to be able to take these everyday experiences and mold them into something interesting for others to say within themselves. Wow! This has happened in a similar way to me or someone I know, but I never seen it in that light God is involved; interesting!

 

There is no greater story or event in history than the events of God in history, but we really do need to know that; YES while God has revealed His love, mercy and grace throughout history. He is also revealing His love, mercy and grace to YOU, every day and every moment. When we go through a day we need to be conscious that God is in the action and moment of each day with us.

 

It will take a day or two to go through this section of scripture. (That’s okay; God is in it!) There is more here than I fully understand (praise the LORD for that)! But of what I do understand; this is one passage that explains the revealed GLORY of God throughout history. An overview of the glory of the Old Covenant and the continuing glory of the New Covenant, yet there is at least one prerequisite to look at first.

 

One would think that the apostle or someone could believe in “progressive revelation” in the context of these passages and that would be totally wrong. Deuteronomy 29:29, Hebrews 1:1-4 and Revelation 22:18-19 prove to all of us that every jot and tittle from the law or the grace of God is complete and will not change. Matthew 5:18. Progressive revelation does not exist in the Holy Bible.

 

So the stories we read from the Holy Bible, the comments we hear from preachers and teachers of the Holy Bible. The comments we hear or read from the multitude of commentators of the Holy Bible all have one purpose and that is to reveal to the world that Jesus Christ is the same; Yesterday, Today and Forever. Hebrews 13:1-9.

 

Now someone out there may think differently, but if you do then you are not arguing against my words, you are arguing against the words of Jesus Christ and His Words to the apostle John on the Island of Patmos around the year AD96; Revelation 1 through Revelation 3. Now we should be ready for 1 Corinthians 3:7-18.