Devotion Corner
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Most of us struggle at some point to articulate ourselves. We fumble with unnecessary wordage, grasping at clumsily executed metaphors to get across our point. All this before we often devolve to replacing something that needs a particular reference to calling it ‘thingy’. Yet in the Holy Bible, we constantly witness an expertise of articulation and vernacular expression, that declares its origin to be of Heaven. For whom else could convey such weighty matters as the purpose of life, hope for the future, the nature of eternity, the goodness of God, and His eternal being all within one verse!
Paul words to Timothy were written in fatherly love. Not a physical fatherly love, but one born of the Spirit. As Paul saw Titus as a son in the Spirit, so too are we made sons and daughters of God through our adoption into the heavenly family through the Lord Jesus, the firstborn from the dead (Colossians 1:18). For it is by His triumphant Resurrection, that we possess a certain and assured hope of eternal life. God is eager for us to live daily in this hope, as it gives us both the humility to serve Him thankfully and joyfully; also, the strength to endure the hardships of the day.
Furthermore, our Heavenly Father moved to have this assurance of an eternal life strengthened by establishing it on His own perfect nature. This hope filled promise of eternal life is built upon God’s inability to lie, and that it is a provision established even before the world began. By making such a bold statement, God is further assuring us of His Fatherly love towards us. He made us even though He knew we would rebel against Him. He gives us life, even when He knew we would live in defiance against Him. Yet still He made us. Still, He made a path of salvation open to us through the giving of His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He did all this to prove His wondrous love to us, so that the ugly and scary sight of death is swallowed up by the beauty and peace of His grace.
Only God could provide such definite, assured and effective hope to enable a good and purpose filled life to be lived. He did this in but a few words to show that where we stumble and fumble in even the most basic of things, such as finding our words, He has no such struggles. This is the power, wisdom, love and grace of God delivered to us through His Word. Let’s not rush through it, but instead marvel at its construction. For in doing so, we can see the face of our Saviour emerge from its blessed pages. Amen.
