Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Daily Butter 10/5: Not Home Yet

My little addition to Our Daily Bread (10/5/11):

 

May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints' inheritance in the light. (Colossians 1:11-12 HCSB)

 

I ended yesterday with some new Steven Curtis Chapman, so I thought borrowing a song title of his for my title today seemed appropriate also. Joe Stowell was so right in today’s ODB about the importance of understanding our true position in Him from verse 13. “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1 NASB) Verse 11 captures the need for strength and power and might and endurance and patience that it takes to walk (as Joe Stowell put so well in his real estate illustration) “through the greatly devalued territory of our world.”  Of course Paul did not write the church in Colossae verse by verse, but rather in his characteristic long sentences. So you cannot have the strength and endurance of verse 11 without the understanding of verse 12 that it is the Father who made it possible to share in the inheritance. I am eternally thankful that it is not by my strength or my endurance or my patience but “according to His glorious might” that I will see the inheritance of the saints.

- Andy Jentes

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