The name of the LORD is a strong tower
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES | REV. W.D. WATLEY Ph.D.
WHEN "SOMEDAY" BECOMES "TODAY"| January 2010| PRINT
The ancient people of Israel understood that they could never be the people God wanted them to be through their own power. They understood that if their latter days were going to be more glorious and brighter than their past, God would have to do something, somewhere, some way and somehow beyond themselves. They began to believe that God was going to send someone who would deliver and restore what they lost either because of their own weakness and shortsightedness or because of what the enemy had taken from them. They may not have understood who this deliverer would be or just what exactly he would do or how he would undertake his restoration business, but they believed that God would send somebody some day to rescue and redeem them.
Thus when the heavenly angels spoke to the lowly shepherds, they were doing more than announcing a Savior; they were ratifying faith and testifying to God’s faithfulness. Christmas is a reminder that God is faithful. Christmas is a reminder that if God has said something our “Someday” will become our “Today!” As our Savior the Lord Jesus came to make sure that our “Someday” will become our “Today”. As surely as Jesus was born, as surely as he lived among us for thirty-three years without sin; as surely as he did great signs and wonders as evidence of the anointing that was upon his life and because he was in perfect agreement with his Father’s will; just as surely, our “Someday” will become our “Today”.
As surely as he chose to suffer and die on a cross for you and for me, and just as surely as he was buried in a borrowed tomb with all precautions made to keep him in, just as surely our “Someday!” will become our “Today!” As surely as early that Sunday morning he arose with all power in heaven and in earth in his hands, and as surely as he stepped on a cloud and ascended into heaven where he is preparing a home for the faithful, and as surely as the Holy Spirit lives within us and among us to keep us and guide us until his return, just as surely our “Someday” will become our “Today”. And as surely as he is coming back again just as he came the first time as a testament to his Heavenly Father’s faithfulness and just as he said he would, just as surely our “Someday” will become our “Today”
I don’t know how long it will be nor just what the future holds for us, but this much I know that if we hold on to the Lord in whom all the promises of God are fulfilled, our “Someday” will become our “Today”. One day we will look around while we are in the land of the living and declare, “Today I am free! Today I have peace! Today I have joy! Today, I am restored! Today I am a new creation in Christ Jesus! Today, the power of Satan is broken in my life! Today I am a lender and not a borrower! Today the promises of God are fulfilled in my life! Today what God has shown me has come to pass! Have a happy and prosperous new year.
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