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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
Copyright 2007

Three Tenses of God's Delivering Power

This entry was posted on 02-12-2007 and is filed under Devotional.

"Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us" (2 Corinthians 1:10 NKJV).

I see three tenses of God's delivering power in this passage. God has delivered us (past tense); God does deliver us (present tense); God will deliver us (future tense).

Think with me for a moment of sometime in the past when God delivered you in a providential, marvelous way. It may have even been pretty dramatic at the time. Perhaps He even dispatched a guardian angel to deliver you. And what is God delivering you from even now – today! I often think of this when I am in church. And then there is the future, a future that none of us know anything about – except that God's delivering power may still be depended upon.

Praise: 'Tis the grandest theme, let the tidings roll, to the guilty heart, to the sinful soul/Look to God in faith, He will make thee whole, "Our God is able to deliver thee.'/He is able to deliver thee, though by sin oppressed, go to Him for rest, 'Our God is able to deliver thee. (William O. Ogden)