Be On Guard!

August 3, 2015

Be On Guard!

“Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the LORD our maker, for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today!”

Psalm 95:6-7

The New Testament lifts up three compelling themes: there is a world to come where the believers will reign with Jesus; Jesus is our hope for the fulfillment of all of God’s promises in the world to come; and Jesus, the one who hold the keys of death and the grave, is a very present comfort today to his followers as we build for his coming Kingdom.

A fourth theme in the New Testament is the encouragement for the followers of Jesus to not lose hope, and not turn away from their belief in justification by faith alone: “You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ. Remember what it says: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled” (Hebrews 3:13-15).

God’s fidelity to His people is unwavering: “If we are unfaithful, (God) remains faithful, for (God) cannot deny who he is” (2 Timothy 2:13). Even so, our great danger is that it is possible for us to so lose hope, to become so hardened of heart, that we no longer care to listen for His voice.

“Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the LORD our maker, for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today!” Psalm 95:6-7

Be on guard!

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188.