Colossians 1:9 That is why we keep on talking to God about you since the day we heard about you. We ask him that you may know everything he wants you to do. We ask him that you may be very wise and that the Spirit will help you to understand.
10 We ask him that you will live the way the Lord wants you to live, so that you will please him in everything you do. We ask that you will do everything that is good. We ask that you will see the fruit from what you do. We ask that you will know more and more about God.11 God has wonderful power. And we ask him to give you all the strength you need to go through all your troubles, to be very patient in them, and to be happy.
12 Thank the Father who has made us ready to be with the people of God who live in his light.
Day 26—The rejoicing of our heart will repulse the enemy as he seeks to bring us down. |
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We are still in the midst of those Psalms that follow, and relate to, the Covenant Promise of Psalm 2. This will continue on through Psalm 15.
First, let us keep in mind what that Promise was, from the Lord God to His Anointed. They are recited to us from the Anointed One Himself as He declares the decree, which the Father had spoken to Him. He that remained enthroned in the heavens, while the vain kings of the earth sought to undo the authority of His earthly rule, laughed of their hopeless resolution. (Read it in Psalms 2:1-3.) In effect God said to them, “You are too late to change the Government I have already set in the earth.” Hear His exact Word: Yet have I set My King upon My holy hill of Zion—Psalms 2:6.
Now, the One anointed and appointed to this Position comes forward to speak. Listen carefully. No Word ever spoken has more effect upon what is unfolding—perhaps even at this present time—than this Word from God the Father to His beloved Son recorded in Psalms 2:7-9. The Son speaks, quoting His Father:
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto Me, Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten Thee. Ask of Me, and I shall give Thee the heathen (the nations) for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
The Lord Jesus spoke some of this Word again in Revelations 2:25-27.
But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. And he that overcometh, and keepeth(sets guard over) My works unto the end(unto their consummation for this age), to him will I give power (exousía, governmental authority) over the nations: And he shall rule them (guide them as a shepherd) with a rod of iron(with an unbending scepter of rightness); as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers (their perverse ways shall be broken to be remade into what is right): even as I received of My Father—as is recorded in Psalm 2.
It is important that we who know what Paul revealed in Colossians 1:16 and that we understand how the Covenant Promise of Psalm 2 is passed on to those who overcome. And this—take careful note in the above passage from Revelation that we are called to set guard over the work the Beloved Son of God has finished in our behalf.
GRAIOUS LORD, teach me, and these whose name I call before You, to live out of the grace and power of the Word You brought to completion for us. Teach us that it means to live by the power of that work. Let it touch all our affairs, all our living, and all our association with others.
Then, it was the work of His Father to raise Him from the dead.—John 19:30 and Romans 10:9
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