Last Year and This Year
2018 held a lot of surprises for our families and was a rather tiring year when all was said and done. Still getting caught up, truth be told.
What keeps me going after a year like that, or during a year like that?
God's Word in print and Incarnate.
As Isaiah 43:2: "When you go through deep waters, I will be with you."
As Nahum 1:7: "The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and He knows those who take refuge in Him."
As His promise in Matthew 28:20b: "I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
As Romans 15:4: "For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."
As Philippians 1:6: "For I am confident of this very things, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus." This fulfills Psalm 138:8: "The LORD will accomplish what concerns me; Your lovingkindness, O LORD, is everlasting; do not forsake the works of Your hands."
As 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17: "Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word."
As Hebrews 13:5b: "For He Himself has said, 'I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU'" (boldface added).
As Hebrews 13:8: "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
As 2 Peter 1:2-4: "Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust."
As Jude 24-25: "Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen."
What keeps me going after a year like that, or during a year like that?
God's Word in print and Incarnate.
As Isaiah 43:2: "When you go through deep waters, I will be with you."
As Nahum 1:7: "The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and He knows those who take refuge in Him."
As His promise in Matthew 28:20b: "I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
As Romans 15:4: "For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."
As Philippians 1:6: "For I am confident of this very things, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus." This fulfills Psalm 138:8: "The LORD will accomplish what concerns me; Your lovingkindness, O LORD, is everlasting; do not forsake the works of Your hands."
As 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17: "Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word."
As Hebrews 13:5b: "For He Himself has said, 'I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU'" (boldface added).
As Hebrews 13:8: "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
As 2 Peter 1:2-4: "Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust."
As Jude 24-25: "Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen."
posted by Ebeth | 9:14 AM
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