Bible Reading: Leviticus 27; Psalm 34; Ecclesiastes 10; Titus 2
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; (Titus 2:13)
Do you live looking forward to the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ? That is the blessed hope of the follower of Jesus! We are to live looking forward! Now some live looking back and that is not what a believer ought to do.
Living life looking back is to live in bondage to the past. Maybe you have not forgiven those who have sinned against you and you are constantly looking back on the hurt and pain you feel. Maybe you are still looking back to some 'glory days' of the past. The days of high school or college are better to you than today. But that is to focus on fleshly desires and not to receive a fresh infilling of God's grace each day. Maybe you live looking back because you are dealing with guilt over something you have done and you are still in bondage to that sin. The Bible says to confess you sin and receive the forgiveness that God gives.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14)
The past is the past and you cannot change it. You can forgive the sin done to you, confess the sin you have done and live for now looking forward to the coming of Christ! What is the blessed hope of the believer?
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)
Jesus is coming back to get his church! Are you ready? How do you live in readiness? First, you must trust in Christ alone for salvation and be born again. When you belong to Jesus, you can live out of the new life he has given to you. Which the Bible teaches us:
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; (Titus 2:12)
Deny the ungodly, worldly lusts and live a sober, righteous, godly life now looking forward to the appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ!
In Christ,
Rody
