Commended to the Word of God's Grace

April 28

“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified, “ Acts 20:32.

To be commended to the word of God’s grace is a secure place to abide. As quoted here, it has the power to build the inner man and to strengthen the outer man so whatever forces the evil one employs against believers, they may be brought to nothing by the steadfastness of the truth embodied in the Lord’s word that cannot fail and cannot lie.

Billy Graham came to this conclusion in the early years of his ministry and prayed, “I have seen enough of the transforming power of this Word to know that God is behind it…. I take it by faith…and trust Him to make clear to me what it means.”

Some people may refute the assertion that God cannot lie by saying that He is God and He can do anything He wishes. But they are forgetting the fact that God has set one perimeter for Himself—He cannot go against His own character. No one can prevent the Holy One from doing exactly as He pleases, and it pleases Him to be true to Himself.

Scriptural verification of His complete integrity and veracity may be found in many places, including the following:

Hebrews 6:18 tells us - "...in which it was impossible for God to lie..."

Numbers 23:19 says - "God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?"

Titus 1:2 says - "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie..."

1 Samuel 15:29 says - "And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for He is not a man, that He should repent."

And Romans 3:4 tells us - "God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar..."

The word ‘repent’ in the above scriptures means to turn around, to go the opposite way from the course. God cannot turn from who He is; He cannot turn back or turn away from who He is.

Because of the honor of His name, He is established in holiness and in integrity as well as in power. Therefore, we who trust in Him may be confident that we are ever secure in Him. The Christ who died to set us free from the bonds of sin is also able to keep us in the hollow of His hand through all the challenges of life.

Let us not be concerned by the challenges of our immediate circumstances or by world events as they unfold, for we “know Whom we have believed and are persuaded that He is able to keep all that we have entrusted to Him,” II Timothy 1:12.