His Word is such a gift to me! Like daily meals, I take it in and expect it will nourish and feed.
Some days the meal is just that---simple bread. ...with thanksgiving, I read/eat, swallow and pray, and move about my day as it feeds me, with me hardly aware of it's inward working.
Then, other days, it just tastes so so good. His Word touches my mind and heart in a way that is 'bang' or 'wow'... so similar to that tasty bite of a really good burrito or a ripe strawberry.
Then there are extra special days, when His Word jumps off the page and pierces me with precision and light. …like those "wow" meals that stick with you... A meal you might think about the next day, or even a meal you might recommend to others, will definitely cook again, and talk about at a dinner party or share with a friend.
Today these words jumped off the page and sweetened my tongue: "...they found things just as He said they would be" (Luke 22:13)
Just as He said.
I had just finished journaling the phrase "the work of God is to believe [Jesus]" (John 6:29) and was struck again with the idea that we all, EVERY believer has the same job. We all have the very same work in common. Every day we need to believe Jesus. That is our job. That and "love Him with all our hearts, minds, souls and strength". These are the main work points on our job description.
…doctor, lawyer, brick layer, waitress, professor, cop, politician, artist, and teacher... we ALL have one clear job: love God and believe Jesus.
The disciples believed Jesus when He told them that the exact place to celebrate the Passover meal would be given to them (Read Luke 22:7-13) and they found it 'just as He said it would be". We can believe His words, follow His direction and He will come through.
Following this lovely, delicious moment of His word I began thinking of the things He has told me... told us. I began prayerfully wondering if I was believing Jesus today.....
I am going away now and am preparing a place for you and will come again... (John 14:13)
If you abide in me, you will bear much fruit. (John 15:8)
Peace, I give you. My peace I give to you. (John 14:27)
I will be with you always, even until the end. (Matthew 28:20)
I will make my home within you. (John 14:23)
You will have pain in this world (John 16:33)
Jesus has promised these things and so many more. And, the full revelation of Scripture offers an overflowing bread-basket of abundant promises to the followers of God. We have a feast of truth in which we can trust, believe and find our hope.
He will come back. He leaves me peace. I will have pain in this world. He abides in me and will be with me to the end. He has overcome the world and will make all things new and right. I will be hated by the world. I can not be separated from His love. He began a good work in me and will bring it to completion. He knows all things and works all things together for my good and His glory. In the midst of pain, fire, storm, or flood, He is with me and I will not drown or burn.
Today, I remember and I take You at Your Word, Lord Jesus.
I will find things just as You said it would be.
Just as You said.
