Reformed Doctrine Daily Devotions

Today’s devotion comes from 2 Timothy 1:12-14.

 

“¹² For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed;  for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.  ¹³ Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.  ¹⁴ Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.”  2 Timothy 1:12-14.

 

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Our Faithful Guard is God.  Notice the three descriptions in today’s Scripture.  Our Faithful Guard is “He (Who) is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.”  Verse 12.  Our Faithful Guard is Christ Jesus and “the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.”  Verse 13.  Our Faithful Guard is “the Holy Spirit who dwells in us”.  Verse 14.

 

We can entrust the treasure of our salvation to God, our Faithful Guard.  “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;  and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.  My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all;  and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.”  John 10:27-29.

 

We can entrust the treasure of our “sound words” (doctrine – verse 13) to God, our Faithful Guard.  “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.”  John 14:26.  “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth;  for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak;  and He will disclose to you what is to come.”  John 16:13

                             

We can entrust the treasure of our work to God, our Faithful Guard.  “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 1:6.