This is a promise.
To some, it’s a promise that enables rest and patience to wait.
To others, it’s a promise of justice, sure and ultimately swift, coming to every unbeliever. But let us not be haughty; rather, let us be moved with compassion unto action.
I am seeing some progress here, within and without. You too? Keep up the good work!
She said.
If you refer back to Luke 15:6, you will read the same words: “Rejoice with me.”
If you move on in the chapter, next you will read the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Perhaps you will notice, as I did today, that the older brother didn’t rejoice with his father or his brother. He had his facts, perhaps even true facts, but it was not a time for discussing what had been; it was time to rejoice over right now.
We would do well to learn to rejoice with the godly good that comes to our brothers and sisters. When they come with meaningful words, words that have infused light into their eyes and sparkle in their countenance, rejoice with them. Give them those moments of delight. Don’t move on too quickly – take some time to rejoice with them.
Remember Lot’s wife.
Even those not well acquainted with the Bible recognize — Remember Lot’s wife.
The account of Lot’s Wife can be found in Genesis 19. I don’t think it was a simple glance back that caught Lot’s wife in the falling sulphur. I think it was the longing in her soul to go back, to go back to the life she loved, her life in Sodom. And as she stood there, frozen, unwilling to move forward, unwilling to leave what was, death took her. She lost her life trying to save it.
Get the picture?
