GOD’S WORD FOR MAY 16

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

   JESUS, YOU…… (YOUR) FAITHFULNESS ENDURES TO ALL GENERATIONS—Ps 119:90

    JESUS, YOU…… ESTABLISHED THE EARTH AND IT ABIDES. —Ps 119:90

     JESUS, YOU……GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING THROUGH YOUR PRECEPTS—Ps 119:104

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THE WORD FOR TODAY ~ ~ 1 Thessalonians 3:13 ~ ~ “so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.”

We’re seeing how God Himself keeps us established in Him as the branch on the Vine, in the classic book, “Abide in Christ” written by Andrew Murray.

Listen to what the word teaches you: 

Deuteronomy 28:9 “The Lord shall establish you a holy people unto Himself.”

1 Chronicles 29:18 “Oh Lord God… keep this forever in the intent of the thoughts of the heart of Your people, and fix their heart toward You.”

Romans 16:25 “Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began”

1 Thessalonians 3:13 “so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.”

2 Thessalonians 3:3 “But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.”

1 Peter 5:10 “But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.”

Can you take these words to mean anything less than that to you – however fitful your spiritual life has hitherto been, however unfavorable your natural character or your circumstances may appear – can be established in Christ Jesus, can become an established Christian?  Let us take time to listen, in simple childlike teachableness, to these words as the truth of God, and the confidence will come: as surely as I am in Christ, I will also, day by day, be established in Him.

The lesson appears so simple, and yet most of us take so long to learn it.  The chief reason is that the grace the promise offers is so large, so godlike, so beyond all our thoughts that we do not really take it to mean what it says.  The believer who has once come to see and accept what it brings can bear witness to the wonderful change that comes over the spiritual life.  Up to this time, he had taken charge of his own welfare; now he has God to take charge of it.  He now knows himself to be in the school of God, a Teacher who plans the whole course of study for each of His pupils with infinite wisdom and delights to have them come daily for the lessons He has to give.  All he asks is to feel himself constantly in God’s hands and to follow His guidance, neither lagging behind nor going before.  Remembering that it is God who works both to will and to do (Philippians 2:13), he sees his only safety to be in yielding himself to God’s working.  He lays aside all anxiety about his inner life and its growth, because the “Father is the husbandman” (John 15:1) under whose wise and watchful care each plant is well secured.  He knows that there is the prospect of a most blessed life of strength and fruitfulness to everyone who will take God alone and wholly as his hope.

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