Daily Devotional

We have just finished Palm Sunday, passion week with Good Friday, the glory of Easter Sunday and Jesus’ resurrection from the dead! We commemorated the most significant event in all of human history!

As we move on in our lives as men and women who have entered into the eternal kingdom through faith in Jesus Christ, how can we also take hold of the unimaginable blessings and honor of walking with Christ our Lord day by day?

We are called to participate with Christ in the fullness of what he opened to His church that original Easter, and fully empowered at Pentecost. What does it look like to partner with Christ now as He leads His church to the coming of the new heavens and the new earth?

A type of this life was promised to Moses as he was called to lead God’s people from Mt. Sinai toward the Promised Land. Here is the text, found in Exodus 33:14-17.

And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?”

The Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name.”

These same promises and provisions are ours, as declared in many passages of the New Testament. What Moses was assured of could be summarized in five points, and applied to us, to you and to me, to all believers.

1. God’s presence will go with you as you press on in your calling in Christ, as Moses did. We are not called to an independent, unguided life. His presence is the leadership we need (John 10).

2. Jesus will give you rest (Heb. 4). This is inner soul rest, a prosperity of soul, in all circumstances.

3. You are set apart from all other human beings, along with the rest of the worldwide church (I Peter 2:9-10). As we go about our Kingdom work we are identified as God’s holy people.

4. You have found favor in God’s sight. You are God’s special delight (1 Peter 2:4-5).

5. God knows you by name. You are not simply one of a mass of God’s sheep. He knows and loves you personally, deals with you as one of His beloved (John 10, Col. 3:12-13).

As you move on in 2022 on the other side of Easter, take hold of these five personal provisions of God to you. These will never change for those of us in Christ. Let no person or event declare anything different to you.

Wrap them around you each day as you go out anew to do His will. May Jesus be glorified by your life, day by day.

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