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Devotional: September 30th

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2 Corinthians 12:9

‘My grace is sufficient’

Read Psalms 73:1-28

The believer is like a man climbing up a hill. Occasionally he slips down, but his face is always set towards the summit. The unregenerate man is always going down, because his face is set in that direction. The believer is like a man on a ship. He may slip and fall many times on the deck, but he never jumps overboard. Our judgments may at times be wrong, like those of the bewitched Galatians (3: 1). Our affections may cool like those of the church at Ephesus (Revelation 2:4). Grace may at times seem to be lost to a child of God, but it never is really lost. The people of God, like the church in the Song of Solomon, may become slothful and negligent, but their hearts awake (5:2). The sun is sometimes eclipsed, but it regains its splendor. The trees lose all their fruit and leaves in the winter, but they have fresh buds in the spring. Israel may flee before her enemies at times, but she enters the land of promise triumphantly when her journey is over. So too, the true believer falls many times, but the Lord raises him up and he will finally enter into heaven triumphantly, through the blood, the righteousness and the grace of Christ. It is utterly unthinkable that one of God’s elect should fail to enter into eternal glory. Like Jonah, we all may, at times, flee from the will of God, but grace will pursue us, preserve us and cause our hearts to return to him who loved us and gave himself for us.

I am like you, a man struggling with sin. At times my sinful thoughts and my sinful deeds almost cause me to despair. But I am reminded by the gospel and by the Spirit of God that his grace is sufficient, even for me. My salvation and my acceptance with God are not in myself, but in my Substitute. Like you, I am just an earthen vessel, but Christ is the Lord our Righteousness. He is all my salvation, all my desire and all assurance. I hang all my hope upon him. Do you?

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