Oh the wonder in the Scriptures for Sunday, April 25th! The ‘pop outs’ were in all of them. So let’s do a quick survey of what jumped and see what Jesus is going to reveal about them.
Let’s pray:
Thank you, Lord, for these words, for these Scriptures, for this chance to write. Oh how good You are to me. Lead us and help us really and truly understand what it is these Scriptures all say. In your holy and precious name, I pray. Amen.
First we’ll start with Jesus’s words in John 10:14-15a.
“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father.”
He knows you. He knows your name, your specific, individual name, and everything about you. He is right here, closer than your next breath and ready for You to ask. Just ask. Or better yet, thank Him.
There’s a lyric in a song, ‘if you’re alive and breathing, praise the Lord.’
Swing over to Acts 4 now and read verse 12.
Acts 4:12 “There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved.”
Salvation… I’m saved, you are saved. We are all saved together. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Father.
One name, only one, by which we must be saved. Jesus. In Hebrew it’s Yeshua. And every promise is Yes in Him. Chief among them: Salvation.
What can you do? How can you be sure?
1 John 3:23-24 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.
What a promise. Obey him by believing in Him and loving one another and He abides in us and we’ll abide in Him. We know He does because his Spirit has been given to us.
And we’ll experience this…
Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD my whole life long.
Follow, so calm feeling. The actual word? Chesed. Means Chase or Pursue. Think of it, You are chased, you are pursued by goodness and mercy. Don’t run, let it catch you.
And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD my whole life long. Or in the way I memorized this chapter, Forever. Not just today but in this age and the next. That’s another one of the wonderful prizes for faith.
Hold on to your faith. Grow your faith. It is all worth it. If you can’t see it today, just trust, it will be worth it. Believe in Him and love one another.