November 2

From: Daily Sacrifice By: Henry Allan Ironside

2 Peter 3:17‑18

“Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and forever. Amen”―2 Peter 3:17,18¹⁷Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. ¹⁸But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. (2 Peter 3:17‑18).

GOD has not left us to the thoughts and imaginations of our minds. He has withdrawn the veil and opened up the future to us through the declarations of inspired prophets and apostles and, most of all, through the instruction given by His own Son, who came forth from the Father and has returned to that glory which He had with Him from before the foundation of the world (John 17:1-5¹These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: ²As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. ³And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. ⁴I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. ⁵And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. (John 17:1‑5)).

When we see in Him the Christ of God, the Eternal Son become flesh, we know we can trust His every word, and so we rest in faith upon what He has revealed. The future may still be unknown, as to many of its details, but we know Him who holds our destiny in His hands, and so we can go on in faith, free from all anxiety, knowing that He has gone to prepare a place for us, and some day we shall enter into the abode of the blessed. Whether we live on till His return or die before He comes back, we are safe in His keeping.

“When nothing whereon to lean remains,

When strongholds crumble to dust:

When nothing is sure but that God still reigns,

That is the time to trust.

‘Tis better to walk by faith than sight

In this path of yours and mine;

And the pitch-black night

When there’s no other light,

Is the hour for faith to shine.”

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