Devotional—God Keeps His Word

See, my servant will act wisely;
he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Isaiah 52:13

God is what God does. He is a God of his word. When God said he would send the Suffering Servant Messiah to his people to redeem not only them, but the whole world — that is what he did. God has kept his word to us and will keep his word to us. He is trustworthy, faithful, and true. This is why we can rest in the reality that God will finish what he has begun in us.

Are we walking as spiritual people, those who are filled with and led by God’s Spirit, Christ in us? Our belief is not what makes us different people. Cutting off parts of our body or trying to make radical changes to our behavior does not change us. What is life-transforming is Christ — the indwelling presence of God by the Holy Spirit.

God is at work in us, as we respond to him in faith. And we participate in his work in this world as the Spirit leads us to love and serve others as we are gifted and called by God. It is a comfort to know it is all up to him, not all up to us — we just get to be a part of what he is doing!

Prayer
Thank you, Abba, for allowing us to be a part of what you are doing in this world. Thank you, Jesus, for giving yourself so freely to us and for including us in your own relationship with the Father in the Spirit. Grant us the grace to live and walk so that all that we do is a true expression of who we are in you, through Jesus our Lord and by your Spirit. Amen.

By Linda Rex, Elder
Big Sandy, Texas, US

This devotional was adapted with permission from Our Life in the Trinity. Read the full blog post here.