March 20 – Only One, He Promises

“Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,” – Isaiah 46:8-9  (ESV)

For those who through Jesus Christ are living with the promise that our new life will last for eternity, it is still good to remember from where we have come. Not remember how or what but where we were once before God pulled us out of the miry muck of sin and death and set our feet on solid ground. Remembering God and thinking about what He has done and who He is. His attributes and His characteristics, help us remember to keep our focus on Him in spite of the chaos of our world that invades our peace, disrupts and stirs up our temper, or attacks our disposition. Remembering and standing firm on what we know about God helps us not to let our temper loose on anyone else. Remember, He has promised this: He is God, our God, and the only true and living God. There is none like Him, none that can compare. It is God who promises us in today’s passage “There is none like Me.” Many times we are challenged to think the gods of other’s religion are real but they don’t exist as anything other than entities opposed to our LORD God the Almighty.

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August 25 – Stand on a Firm Place

“He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.”  Psalm 40:2 (NIV)

Today we are considering a testimony by David in one of the psalms he wrote.  This is a song of praise to God. We want to think of those last words about God giving us a “firm place to stand.”  That is really what He has done and is doing.  Without that firm place, we find ourselves on uncertain and slippery mud.  Have your ever been in such a place where even a step could mean a fall into muck and slime?  When we believed in Jesus as our Savior, we were lifted out of the slimy pit we were in and given a solid foundation, a rock to stand on.  This rock is the new relationship we have with the God of the universe.  We have received His Spirit to live in us and to guide us and to keep us from falling.  We belong to Him and are part of His family forever.  Such is the solid ground on which we stand now.  There is this promise given to us and we can stand on it in faith believing because God is the faithful one who watches over us.  

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