Delivered

June 7

Our Deliverer is coming. Indeed, He is coming back. We wait with outstretched hands and uplifted hearts for the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, yes, there are scoffers among us—the Bible tells us that there will be (see II Peter 3:4), but we don’t depend on the wisdom or the doubts of men for our confidence. Our faith in the return of our Lord and Savior is based in the integrity of His Word.

The Word says, “A man (Jesus) shall be as your hiding place from the wind, your covering from the tempest, your river of refreshing in a dry and thirsty place,” Isaiah 32:2. It is the Lord’s intent to deliver believers from every manner of trial and adversity; to deliver the one who trusts in Him from doubt and fear. Even when it appears that deliverance hasn’t come, we know ultimately it will.

As Job discovered through his horrendous trial, the appearance may be that God has forgotten His own, but ultimately, deliverance and restoration come—sometimes they come in time and sometimes they come in eternity. Wherever we are given the ability to see our deliverance, it is assured, it is paid for—by the shed blood of Jesus.

Psalm 116:8, 9 says, “You, O Lord, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from falling; so I may walk before You in the land of the Living.” He wants us to claim our redemption and to walk free of sin during our sojourn in time. When we claim that glorious gift, we are then assured that we will be found in Him in eternity, too.