This weeks promise. God promises to fill you with joy!
1 Peter 1:3-6 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
1 Corinthians 2:9 However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”—
Does your heart swell within you when you read these verses? I know mine does! In the passage above, toward the end where it says “In this you greatly rejoice”, the Lord is telling us again all that we have that others don’t and it should fill us with joy. We have Salvation right here and right now; which means also that we are shielded from the worst by God’s power, and we have a future inheritance that is so fantastic that it is impossible for us to even begin to imagine it! Not only do we have this fantastic inheritance guaranteed each one of us, but it will not be a fleeting one that is here today and gone tomorrow. Our inheritances will last throughout eternity! He tells us to remember this when we’re going through difficult times so that we will be encouraged. Remembering this will bring our focus right back to where it should be—on God!
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
