Deuteronomy 33;29: “HAPPY art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD?" Although this Scripture speaks of Israel, it is also the testimony of all who are redeemed by the Lord. Who else is like you? If you are saved by the blood of Jesus, how blessed you are!
The word “saved” is “yasha” and means “rescued, saved, freed, delivered, and preserved. This is what Jesus has done for us. If this doesn’t make us happy, something is wrong.
Not even eternity will reveal the greatness and the tremendous cost of our salvation. To think God loved us so much that He was willing to give His only Beloved Son to die and shed His blood for our sons. To redeem us from the hand of the enemy. To free us from the kingdom of darkness. To give us eternal salvation.
We dare not ever taken our salvation for granted. When it is time to pray every morning and evening at our Family Devotions, I cannot refrain from thanking God again for His glorious redemption. It is a twice daily habit of my life.
Being saved does not exempt us from the trials and hardships of this life as we walk through as strangers and pilgrims on our way to the eternal realm. But no matter what we face, we can still be happy. We are blessed because we have a glorious future. An eternal salvation. This life is only a vapor ad we rejoice in our life to come.
Don’t you love the promise in 2 Corinthians 4:17, 18: “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory: While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
Do you notice that the afflictions we endure in this life will reap for us a FAR MORE EXCEEDING AND ETERNAL WEIGHT of glory? God uses FIVE adjectives to describe the glory that awaits us!
No need for complaining, despondency, and self-pity. We are saved by the Lord. We are blessed. Rejoice with your family today.
Be blessed,
Nancy Campbell