Verse and Thought: Unwavering Light

“And this is the judgement: the light has come into the world and the people loved darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.” 

- John 3v19

Thought: Lord, you rule with an iron fist. You are unwavering, my God. You care for man, but are completely aware of what is in man and yet you delight in him. With all integrity you do not vindicate your wrath, without first interceding in the works of men for eternal salvation. You make it clearly seen, Father that man’s good works for salvational history have been carried out in God, that man is an extension of your righteousness. With vigilance you execute your redemptive succession upon the hearts man, making all things new. You work all things for the sake of your name and the good of those who love you. Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people (Jn. 2v24). The Lord leads man down cool streams of water and quenches his thirst with a waterfall of promises. If man abides in the good works as unto the Lord and believes in Jesus as the forerunner on his behalf, he will obtain the promise set before him by the faithfulness of God.  

The Word of the Lord says that, “Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise” (Hebrews 6v15). Saving faith may appear to come to brother and sister, father and mother, friend or foe, but if what the rain pours out upon the soul produces thorns and thistles it is worthless. Saving faith is a spring welling up to eternal life, it floods the pastures and overtakes the town. It does not loose momentum, it patiently waits to obtain a promise. 

Abraham is often said to be the “father of faith”, because it was in him that God promised that he would become the father of many nations and Abraham believed the Word of the Lord. So it is that we, the faithful, are decedents of an ancient work, a work of God in the hearts of man. Works carried out by God for the hope of assurance set before man, that he might obtain the promise, like our father Abraham did.    

My soul waits on the Lord, for he is my refuge and my light. He is my delight and my salvation (Psalm (27:1-2). The Lord is the first and the last. The Lord is the promise I cling to, by his steadfast love I cleave to his Word and hold out for the hope set before me. It is written, “And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise”, so it will be said of me, because of the hope stored up in me. I patiently wait on the Lord. What doubt could possibly convince me otherwise? I will hold fast to the Lord and praise him all the days of my life, in sorrow and celebration I will consider it all joy to the glory of Him who has made me well.   

Prayer: Father God, I wait for you. Thank you, Father, that I can rest in your promise, I can stand confidently in the shadow of the cross, in the completely assurance of my salvation. I ask Father that your saints would furiously seek after you and desire you with the uttermost affection. I pray as they are, that they would cleave to the promise set before them and delight in pools of joy everyday. 

I pray for those that do not understand the truth of the hope set before them, the confidence we have in Jesus as the forerunner of on our faith. Believers ought to know that “we have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf” (Hebrews 6v19-20). We ought to believe and have the assurance as children of God. Lord speak through your Word that they might see and clearly perceive the goodness of the Lord in the cross of Christ.

Also, I pray for those who do not know you or that are not known by you, that they upon receiving rebirth might see you as the steadfast anchor of their soul and therefore cleave to your promise. I ask all these things in your beautiful name. Amen.