(As one who trusts in Christ,) do joyfully look to the future, knowing that the Everlasting God will transform your grief to gladness?
The intensity of our commitments may change depending on our attitude and circumstances. But God’s faithfulness is different.
Is anything too hard for the LORD?
Do you see God’s grace? By entering into a covenant with us – and making solemn promises, and giving visible signs, God is bending over backwards to us to prove his trustworthiness and goodness.
God, in his tender mercy, is a God who sees.
As you see the confirmations God gave Abram, you can humbly thank God, that he himself has confirmed, by his own power, by his own promise, by his own covenant – He is committed to deliver his blessings to you.
Jesus has been made our priest forever, to purify us for worship, and to pronounce the Father’s blessing on us for the fight of faith.
Don’t be enticed by Egypt. Don’t settle for Sodom. But let life’s various tests and temptations deepen your resolve to trust God. He’s at work to refine your faith, and to strengthen you for good in the years ahead.
This section of history vividly demonstrates how God saves his people: He graciously calls his people out of sin, into his blessing, into faith, and into worship.
The Compassion of the Creator At the beginning of the new year, we went back to the beginning of the Bible – to the book of Genesis. And for the…