05/01/2022
What comforts us most, is it that by our faith in Jesus Christ we have eternal life, or that God never lies? To find comfort in our belief that eternity awaits us, we must first believe that God doesn’t lie. One offers proof of the other.
“in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began”
Titus 1:2 ESV
Incredibly, God has promised us eternal life if we will believe in His Son Jesus, and we know this is true because it is not within His nature to lie. So by His very nature, we trust in Him, and know His Word, and this promises, are true. Our trust, faith, and belief allow us to thank Him not only for eternal life, but having eternal life with Jesus Christ. These are His promises, and the entirety of our faith rests on the truthfulness of God… is this the foundation on which each of us finds comfort in our faith today?
““For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
John 3:16 ESV
Satan is a liar, and we see the effect that his lying nature had on Adam, Eve, and has had on all of us since that day of sin’s first awakening in man. If the devil were to tell you something today, or make you a promise of spending a glorious eternity with him, would you believe him? Sadly, people in the world are deceived, and believe him every day. This travesty occurs in the lives of millions of people around the world; they are not only victims of the lie that he told Eve in the Garden of Eden, but of the new lies he concocts to keep them in that fallen state of sin. He makes those who believe in his lies to be false images of those believers that God calls His children.
“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
John 8:44 ESV
But our God never lies, Jesus is truthful, and we are God’s children as well. Isn’t it wonderful that our God, is trustworthy, and that He has told us such things as; He loves us, He forgives our sins, He calls us to Him through Jesus, that he desires to spend eternity with us, and that through His truthful nature, and the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of His Son Jesus Christ He has defeated that original sin, conquered the world, and that all of this; every Word and promise He has spoken, is true and to be believed.
“The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.”
Psalm 119:160 ESV
Today let’s contemplate our opening question….” What comforts us most, is it that by our faith in Jesus Christ we have eternal life, or that God never lies?”, and let’s ask ourselves additional questions like: “If I had not been promised eternity would I still believe?”, and “Would I pick up my cross and follow Jesus if eternity didn’t await me?”.
Prayer:
Father, thank you for your inability to speak anything but truth. Thank you for your Son Jesus who has inherited your nature, and also speaks truth. Father, thank you for redeeming us from Satan’s lies through the blood of Jesus, and for sanctifying us in truth as He is sanctified by setting us aside from the world. Help us as we increase in our faith, and lead us to become more like you with each passing day. Holy, Holy, Holy, are you our God who knows only truth, and makes His children known to the world by their truthfulness. Praised be your name for the comfort we have in your Word, and every promise you have made. Merciful are you who loves us, and has made a way through Christ for us to be redeemed from sin, and transformed into His image. Your grace covers us, and it is sufficient to remake our nature into what we see to be yours through Jesus. Wash us clean in the precious blood of Christ, and see only His righteousness in us. Pronounce us worthy Father, and call us your children. We long to be with you forevermore, and to thank you for your promise of eternity that has not only blessed us, but eternally glorified you.
“They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.”
John 17:16-19 ESV
Rich Forbes