We Serve a Living God
"Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, who you serve continually, been able to rescue you?" Daniel 6:20
We sing it mostly at Easter: He lives! He lives! Christ Jesus lives today! He walks with me, and talks with me along life's narrow way! He lives! He lives ... salvation to impart! You ask me how I know He lives -- He lives within my heart!
The question is: Do I really believe HE LIVES? Today's reading from Streams in the Desert was one I needed to be reminded of:
We find the expression "the living God" many times in the Scriptures, and yet it is the very thing we are so prone to forget. We know it is written "the living God," but in our daily life there is almost nothing we lose sight of as often as the fact that God is "the living God."
We forget that He is now exactly what He was three or four thousand years ago, that He has the same sovereign power, and that He extends the same gracious love toward those who love and serve Him. We overlook the fact that He will do for us now what He did thousands of years ago for others, simply because He IS the unchanging, LIVING GOD! What a reason to confide in Him, and in our darkest moments to never lose sight of the fact that He IS still, and ever will be THE LIVING GOD!
We forget that He is now exactly what He was three or four thousand years ago, that He has the same sovereign power, and that He extends the same gracious love toward those who love and serve Him. We overlook the fact that He will do for us now what He did thousands of years ago for others, simply because He IS the unchanging, LIVING GOD! What a reason to confide in Him, and in our darkest moments to never lose sight of the fact that He IS still, and ever will be THE LIVING GOD!
Be assured, if you walk with Him, look to Him, and expect help from Him -- He will never fail you ... Martin Luther, deep in thought and needing to grasp hidden strength during a time of danger and fear in his life, was seen tracing on a table with his fingers the words, "He lives! He lives!" This is our hop for ourselves, His truth, and humankind.
People come and go. Leaders, teachers, and philosophers speak and work for a season and then fall silent and powerless. HE ABIDES. They die, but HE LIVES! They are lights that glow yet are ultimately distinguished. BUT HE IS THE TRUE LIGHT from which they draw their brightness, and HE SHINES FOREVERMORE!
Today you may be questioning what is happening in your life. You may be wondering what in the world is going on. But you need to be reminded this morning, my dear brothers: HE LIVES! We serve a LIVING GOD. Rejoice in that truth today! -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK
DIGGING DEEPER: Proverbs 18; Genesis 43-45; Matthew 12:24-50DIG THIS QUOTE: To the extent that you’re clinging to any vestiges of self-righteousness or putting confidence in your own spiritual attainments, to that degree you are not living by the grace of God in your life. – Jerry Bridges
DETERMINED DIGGING: Joshua 1:8; Psalm 15
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