Tuesday after the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on September 26, 2023 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
God’s Word in the book of Hebrews proclaims the same wisdom as was proclaimed through the Old Testament prophets. God’s people are to be patient and wait on the Lord, especially when they are suffering trials! The Lord has always called His people to trust and confidence in His promises. From the beginning they were to trust in the Son who would crush the Serpent. They were to trust that He would continue to make them a people and give them a land and kingdom. They were to trust that He would save and deliver them from slavery. They were to trust that the Son of David would come and rule over them in glory. They were to have confidence in all these holy, divine promises.
Now our confidence is in the revealed kingdom of Jesus Christ! We still must hope and trust, but His promises point us to the end of the age, the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. It is still holy and divine. It is still established by His power and will, not according to our timelines. And it is still going to be a very glorious kingdom! But we must live by faith, not by our own notions of wisdom, nor by our own will and expectations. We are to cling to the hope He gives us through faith in His Word, according to the power of His Spirit.
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.
