| “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to Him” (2 Timothy 1:12 JND). |
| “Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good deposit entrusted” (2 Timothy 1:14 JND). |
| Probably at least some of you have a bank account, and are able to deposit money into it from time to time. It is a safe place in which to keep your money, and then you can go and take it out later, if you need it to buy things. You expect the bank to keep it safely for you, so that no one can steal it. |
| Here in our verses today we have two deposits — one which we give to the Lord to keep, and one which He gives us to keep. When we live for the Lord, and honor Him in our lives, then we are depositing things to our “heavenly account.” They are the things for which the Lord will be able to give us a reward in a coming day. They are things that we do for Him. No one can ever steal that deposit, and the Apostle Paul, who wrote these verses to Timothy, was confident that the Lord would keep that deposit for him. |
| But then the Lord gives you and me a deposit to keep. When we learn things from the Word of God about the Lord Jesus and learn the truth that He has given us, then this is part of our deposit. The Holy Spirit teaches us these things, and we are to hold onto them. But we can hold onto them only if we practice them in our lives. It is not enough to know them in our heads; we must live by them. If we do not practice those things, then we easily lose them. Sad to say, some Christians give up the things they have learned from the Bible, because it makes their life easier in this world. But then they will lose part of their reward, for part of that deposit will not be there anymore. How important it is to hold onto what the Lord has taught us, and to use it in our lives! |
