Daily Devotions
"I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself. In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Colossians 2:2-3 NLT
MAY 18
"Speaking the truth in love [we] may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ."- Ephesians 4:15
As we study and grow in our Christian lives, we are able to understand more and more of the Bible and its wonderful truth. But we must use what we learn in our lives, building our characters Song of Solomon we can be more like Christ. The Bible pictures Christ as the head, and the church as his body, to help us realize their close relationship. 2 Peter 3:18
May 18
We which have believed do enter into rest. (Hebrews 4:3)
OUR rest in the Lord is as complete as is our belief in Him. He who believes fully rests fully; he who believes only partially rests but partially. The ideal condition of the spiritual Israelite is the attainment of a perfect rest, a perfect Sabbath-keeping, in his present experience, and a waiting and laboring for another and still more complete rest--the actual rest of the perfected condition--the rest that remains for the people of God. \"Let us therefore labor to enter into that rest [Sabbath], lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief\" [of fleshly Israel].-- Hebrews 4:9-11.
May 18
He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25
THROUGHOUT the Gospel age, the Lord's people by the eye of faith beheld the great High Priest as their Advocate, who ever liveth to make intercession for us, while he awaited the Father's time for his coming forth a second time to make good his exceeding great and precious spiritual promises and blessings upon his church, and to grant the promised restitution blessings to the world, foretold "by all the holy prophets since the world began." But in advance of the actual blessings, by faith, all who are his brethren, his disciples, walking in his footsteps, seeking to fulfil their sacrifice as he fulfilled his, and under his assistance and direction, may realize that they are not aliens and strangers and foreigners from God, but that they are accepted with the Father--not directly but indirectly, "accepted in the Beloved," who is our Intercessor, our Advocate, and in whom alone we have a standing before the Father and may ask or expect any favors.
Devotional Books
Exceeding Great and Precious Promises
