"So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us." ~Hebrews 6:18, NLT
We've been reading a lot of Paul's words lately, but this one's from James. (At least in my Bible it's attributed to him...) Now, in Hebrews 6, James is discussing God's promises and how He fulfills them. As an example, he's used the promises God made to Abraham. A promise, and an oath, to be precise. But the point of that explanation is to validate God's word as absolutely true, and His promises as absolutely valid because "it is impossible for God to lie."
This argument leads up to the idea that we can know for certain that the "hope that lies before us" (who is Jesus, and the resurrection from the dead) is a promise that will be fulfilled, an oath impossible to break. Thus when we find refuge in God, we can be 100% sure that our hope is true. This hope dictates a reason to never be afraid again - with Jesus, we are safe in God's arms, safe from the nonsense of life and confident in the fact that God loves us and wants to make us the very best versions of us that we can be.
Image: Fotopedia
No comments:
Post a Comment