The Tuesday after the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on October 7, 2025 by under
Scripture: Hebrews 10:35-39 (NKJV)
10:35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
37 “For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
38 “Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
Devotion
Hebrews reminds us that “the just shall live by faith.” This is a consistent message through our Lord’s holy Word. The works of our lives do not make us just. The faith that He works in us makes us just, makes us truly alive, and makes us able to bear the fruit of patient love.
If we focus on this world, its power, its ups and downs, then we are drawn away from the promises of our Lord. He gives His Spirit so we may confidently fear, love, and trust in Him above all those things. He gives us His Gospel so we may know that He paid the price for our sins with His blood on the cross. He gives us the whole wisdom and counsel of His Word so we may be equipped to walk in His blessings. There is nothing good for us if we go back to the things of the world.
The world wants us to think that Christ’s promises are empty. Do not believe it. Our Lord has shown us in many ways that the world burns with the lies of the devil. He has also shown us that He keeps His gracious promises. He will continue to be with us and bless us in His Church, and He will make all things new in the life of the world to come!
Collect: Lord, we pray Thee, that Thy grace may always go before and follow after us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
