HALLEUYAH! HALLELUYAH!! HALLELUYAH!!!
RELEASE DATE: December 12, 2022
WEEK 38: (December 12 – December 18, 2022)
WEEKLY BIBLE READINGS:
Jude 1: 24 – 25 (NIV)
24 To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— 25 to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
INTERPRETATION
As humans, we feel guilt to varying degrees in response to real, exaggerated, or imagined wrongdoings. This is human nature. However, with Christ, this is ‘counter-productive’ – no guilt whatsoever for wrongdoings. Little wonder, Paul in his second epistle to the Corinthians says that “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away…” Should we now take this as an escape route to dwell in sin?
In the bible text under review, Jude in his doxology – an expression of praise sung to the Holy Trinity – emphasizes how Christ is able to not only keep us and preserve us from falling but also present us blameless before God. Falling means sinning. It applies to any false step we make in our Christian course, whatever its nature and termination. We are prone of ourselves to falling. What God said of His people of old, “they love to wander,” He might say of us. And we are assailed continually from without. Therefore, sinning is human nature. But here is the good news. The great God our Saviour is able to keep us. Again, we need high thoughts of God; high thoughts of His mercy to lead us at first into His ways—our sinfulness makes that necessary; and then high thoughts of His power to lead us cheerfully on in His ways—our many dangers render this needful.
The Bible text also explained that the Lord Jesus has high designs concerning us, which He is able to accomplish. This means that when sin is tormenting you, your deliverance for it will be complete! Every fragment and trace of it will be gone. And yet further, Christ will do this “with exceeding joy.” “He will give us joy,” you will say, “as He does it. We shall shout for joy as He calls us to Himself.”
However, in keeping His people and accomplishing His glorious designs concerning them, God manifests His wisdom. “The only wise God.” Some of us rarely think of God’s wisdom as doing anything now to keep or save us. It planned the glorious scheme of our salvation, we think, and then retired, leaving mercy and grace to execute it. Or if we do carry our thoughts farther than God’s mercy and grace, we take in perhaps only His faithfulness. But all the perfections of Jehovah are at work for us.
Beloved, this is a reminder that God is able to deliver us and he has the power to preserve us. We only need to acknowledge Him and run to His throne of grace so that we might obtain mercy in time of need. Accept Him into your life and see your life turn around for good.
PRAYER
Jehovah, Jesus Christ, Holy Michael, Our Father and Our Lord, thank you for your Word. Forgive me all my iniquities, have mercy on me. I invite you into my life, take charge of my life. I give my heart to you, come into my heart Lord Jesus. Come in today and come in to stay. Strengthen me and guard my heart from falling and preserve me till the end, that I shall inherit your kingdom. This and many more we ask for through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Thank you and God bless. Shalom.
Footnote: “A life without Christ is full of crisis but life in Christ is a great life full of peace. Let that be your Guide & Guard”
Isaiah 59:1 – Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear”