Honey From The Rock

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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

NEARER NOW

This entry was posted on 03-13-2008 and is filed under uncategorized.

"...our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed" (Romans 13:11-c NIV).

This seems pretty academic, doesn't it? Our salvation ("final deliverance" - Amplified) is certainly nearer to us now than when we put our trust in Christ. For me that was 50 years ago this year (June 22, 1958). Every day that I live I am that much nearer to my ultimate salvation - Heaven.

This is why we should not be sleeping in the spiritual realm. This is why we should realize the crisis nature of the times in which we live. This is why we should be loving one another and living righteously. I like how Eugene Peterson puts it in The Message. "But make sure that you don't get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God. The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing! God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work he began when we first believed." Every hour we live we are just that much closer to our eternal home. I became a Christian at age 12. Now I am 62. Where did those 50 years go? How many do I have left? Is my eternal salvation nearer now than when I first believed? O, yes! How about you?

Chorus: "Sunrise tomorrow, sunrise tomorrow, Sunrise in glory is waiting for me; Sunrise tomorrow, sunrise tomorrow, Sunrise with Jesus for eternity." (W. C. Poole).