Summer's Best Two Weeks: 9 Biblical Promises We Can Cling To

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

9 Biblical Promises We Can Cling To

The following 9 promises were posted at the Desiring God Blog by Jonathan Parnell under the title:

9 Reasons You Can Face Anything

The following is a portion of that post:

"By the blood of his Son, God has promised infallibly:

I will meet all your needs according to my riches in glory in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).
My power will be made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9).
I will strengthen you and help you and hold you up with my righteous right hand (Isaiah 41:10).
I will never leave you nor forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).
I will not let any testing befall you for which I do not give you grace to bear (1 Corinthians 10:13).
I will take the sting away from your death with the blood of my son (1 Corinthians 15:55f).
I will raise you from the dead imperishable (1 Corinthians 15:52).
I will transform your lowly body to be like my glorious body, by the power that enables me even to subject all things to myself (Philippians 3:21).
I will do this without fail because I am absolutely sovereign over everything and therefore, I can do all things, and no purpose of mine can be thwarted (Job 42:2).

This list is adapted from the sermon, When Jesus Meets Disability."

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Many of you might remember a comp talk or two from camp in which we talked about Eric Liddel. He is famous for saying, "When I run I feel God's pleasure." Eric was a devoted Christian and very talented athlete. His first ever college race he took second place, from then on he never lost a race he entered in his home country of Scotland.*

There is much to learn from him on how to compete as a Christian athlete. Here is another quote you may not be familiar with. "In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is glory to be found if one has done his best."* If we were giving a comp talk we would explain that the glory is God's, and win or lose in competition, God is glorified when the Christian athlete has given his or her best. When the athlete has sought to treat teammates selflessly, and opponents with dignity, coaches and officials with respect, and with gratefulness to God for their abilities have given their all, then who gets the glory? Jesus!

Check out more about Eric Liddel at http://www.ericliddell.org/, or see the academy award winning film about his life, Chariots of Fire.

*Janet & Geoff Benge, Eric Liddell: Something Greater Than Gold, Christian Heroes: Then & Now (Seattle, WA: YWAM Publishing, 1998), pages 30 and 66 respectively.

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