EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/07/2025 9:10 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-4 “The Believer’s Precious Faith—Part 2: Its Certainty”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 1:5-11
Message of the verses: “5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, 6 and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, 7 and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. 10 Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; 11 for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.”
“Sixth, other Christians may lack assurance because they fail to see God’s hand in all their trials. They thereby miss the strongest proof of assurance which is a tested faith. Paul instructed the Romans,
1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; 5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us (Rom. 5:1-5; cf. Heb. 6:10-12; James 1:2-4).
Peter earlier wrote,
6 In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, 7 so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 1:6-7).
Trials test believers’ faith not for God’s sake but theirs. He knew if their faith is truly saving faith because He gave it to them (Eph. 2:8-9); however, they learn their faith is real because it triumphs in their trials. In God’s sovereign providence, He ordained that believers’ trials and difficulties constitute the crucible from which assurance derives (cf. Job 23:10; Rom. 8:35-39).”
Now it because my wife and I find ourselves in the type of situation that is mentioned here I think that it is best that I go ahead and quote the last set of verses found in the above paragraph in the order that they are mentioned.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” (Eph. 2:1-10)
10 “But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” (Job 23:10).
“35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written, "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED." 37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom. 8:35-39).
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