Promises Remembered | Jan. 11th

"Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life."

Psalm 119:49-50

Scripture contains many precious promises. Promises that pertain to our everyday life and others related to our hope for eternal life in Christ. Those that speak of eternity are the ones that are unfulfilled and seem too far away to obtain. But faith is the assurance of things hoped for.

In Christ, we have been made new. The experience of being made new assures us of the resurrection and our place with the Lord in heaven. The daily witness of the Holy Spirit in your life points to heaven.

The promise in which we have hope. God will not leave us in this life and that the Comforter is with us. God will finish what He started in us, and He has a home for us where we shall dwell with Him forever.

In Christ Alone,

Pastor Wight

Where Shall We Go | Jan. 10th

"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.."

John 6:68

The word of God tells us that in life we shall have tribulation. We do not always understand the full scope of what this means until we are in the midst of something beyond what we can bear. In these trials, we are forced to reconcile with our fears and doubts whether we will hold to the word of God or look for some other anchor for the soul.

Thankfully, the Lord is patient with us as we stumble about while we grasp things that cannot sustain us. Trial and error prove that there is only one source of eternal life. There is only One who can calm all our fears and bring peace to our hearts beyond what we understand.

We conclude that there is none other than the Lord. He alone gives life to our broken spirit. He is the Mighty Counselor and Prince of Peace. To Jesus, we bow our knees and ask for the living bread that feeds our weary hearts. Come to Him today, and you will find rest for your soul.

In Christ Alone,

Pastor Wight

Kept by God | Jan. 9th

"I give them eternal life, and they never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand."

John 10:27

Christ has given us eternal life. We did not earn it by our merit. It was a work of God's sovereign grace. We could not save ourselves, and we could not secure ourselves for heaven. Our life needs to possess evidence that we have been born again, but it is God's that keeps us.

The glorious reality of this truth is we have been saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. He has preserved our life from corruption, and nothing can pluck us from the hand of God.

Nothing present or yet to come, no principality or power will be able to separate you from the love God has for you in Christ. Death itself cannot separate you from His love. To be absent from the body is to present with the One, who is holding you right now. Nothing will snatch you away from the Lord.

In Christ Alone,

Pastor Wight