GOD’S WORD FOR OCTOBER 31

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.  Besides his many ministries, and many books, Pastor Lutzer was Senior Pastor at Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus there.  He is  Chancelor and a former professor at Moody Bible Institute, where he taught Theology and Ministry, and now has numerous radio teachings.

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JUST A PREVIEW

“Show him my salvation.”   Psalm 91:16

D.L. MOODY

I believe we don’t learn the fringe of the subject of salvation down here. When our Master was on Earth, He said He had many more things to say, but He could not reveal them to His disciples because they were not ready to receive them. But when we go yonder, when these mortal bodies have put on immorality, when our spiritual faculties are loosed from the servitude of the flesh, I believe we shall be able to take more in. God will lead us from glory to glory, and show us the fullness of our salvation. Don’t you think Moses knew more at the Mount of Transfiguration than he did at Pisgah (where Moses saw the Promised Land)? Didn’t Christ talk with him then about the death He was to accomplish at Jerusalem? He couldn’t have received this truth before, but when he had received his glorified body, Christ could show him everything.

ERWIN LUTZER

John Bunyan, in The Pilgrim’s Progress, said that when pilgrims Hopeful and Christian could see the holy city in the distance, it was too beautiful for human eyes. So, they needed a special instrument by which they could see it because they could not look at it directly.

We have this marvelous account in God’s Word (see Revelation 19:1–6; Revelation 21, 22) of what eternity with Christ will be like. We know the meaning of the words written on the page, but when we try to grasp the concept, it always eludes us. It is never what we really think it is—it is so much better. So much better! Though we see, thank God, we see dimly  (1 Corinthians 13:12). We don’t get it all, but we try to because it is so much better than we could imagine it to be.

PRAYER

Father, inspire me to live in light of eternity and to eagerly desire the revealing of your glory.

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Luke 12:32

Fear not, little flock: for it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

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*Jude 24, 25  Now unto Him Who is able to keep you from falling, and to present  you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.  To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.  Amen

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*Isaiah 40:26-31

Raise your eyes on high  and see who has created these stars,

The One who brings out their multitude by number,  He calls them all by name;

Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power,  not one of them is missing.

Why do you say, Jacob, and you assert, Israel,   “My way is hidden from the Lord,

And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth

Does not become weary or tired.   His understanding is unsearchable.

He gives strength to the weary, and to the one who lacks might He increases power.

Though youths grow weary and tired,  and vigorous young men stumble badly,

Yet those who wait for the Lord   will gain new strength;

They will mount up with wings like eagles,   they will run and not get tired,  they will walk and not become weary.

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Ps 23:6

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

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Psalm 49:15

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for He shall receive me.

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I John 5:11

And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

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John 5:24

Verily, verily, I say to you, He that hears My word, and believes on Him that sent Me, already has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

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Psalm 37:18

The LORD knows the days of the upright (those who have accepted the full sacrifice of Jesus on the cross for their sins): and their inheritance shall be for ever.

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John 10:27-28

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

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