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 31—A plea that God will make haste to help us |
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David was a man of the Kingdom. He was in Covenant with God. It was His Son of Whom God said, I will stablish the Throne of His Kingdom for ever—II Samuel 7:13.
It was the choosing of the Lord to draw David unto Himself. He was not a perfect man, as none of us is perfect. He was a man whose hope was in the mercy of the Lord, as our hope is in His mercy alone.
But, wait! Is our hope in His mercy only? I think our hope is also in the supreme authority of His Kingdom whose Throne has been made secure by the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of David. Our hope is in His wisdom by which He has chosen us and by which He leads us. Our hope is in His Word which is more sure and powerful than all the forces of the world that stand to oppose its Light and Life.
On we might go. The hope that is ours in Christ Jesus is a hope that reaches beyond the veil, with an anchor secured in the most holy place where no vile intruder can enter to cut the chain of the anchor or throw it out into some dreadful mooring.
As we close this year, let us sing, or recite, this beloved hymn written about 175 years ago by a man named Edward Mote.
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.
On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
—AMEN, AMEN and AMEN! All Praise to Jesus Christ, our Lord! that in the redemption I became Yours. I confess that you have reconciled me to our heavenly Father. I rejoice in the propitiation for my sins that You accomplished for me. Thank You for salvaging my life from the junk heap of sin.
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