Growing in Grace

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse” (Malachi 4:5-6).

“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen” (Revelation 22:21).

About 100 years ago, a small boy (actually one of my uncles!) asked his Sunday school teacher why it said “Amen” at the end of the New Testament, but not at the end of the Old Testament. This sounds like a boy’s question, doesn’t it? His Sunday school teacher did not know the answer right away and said that she would answer it the next Lord’s day. But later, when she read the two verses that we have for today, she immediately knew the answer.

The word “amen” means “I agree with that,” or perhaps in some cases, “Let it be done.” In the Old Testament we have the history of what sinful man is, and the results of all the testing God gave man, to see if there was any good in him naturally. But man was a total failure, and the “day of the Lord” which is mentioned in Malachi 4:5 is a day of judgment which will come on this world. Man is guilty before God and will come under His judgment, unless he accepts Christ as His Savior.

But could God say “Amen” to that? Is God happy to carry out judgment? No! He is a loving God who “will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4). God could not say “Amen” to a curse that will come on the world.

But in the New Testament we have the history of the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, who came into this world to save sinners. “The grace of God which carries with it salvation for all men has appeared” (Titus 2:11 JND), and all who will come to Christ can be saved. At the end of the New Testament, God can say, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.” Can God say “Amen” to that? Yes, He can, for “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound” (Romans 5:26). God’s judgment on sinful man is necessary, but God takes no delight in it. He delights in displaying His grace and can say “Amen” to it.

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“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24).

The word worship is used quite often among Christians today, yet many do not really understand what the word means. I have heard people who attend a so-called “church” talk about someone in that “church” that “leads the worship.” Usually this is someone who stands at the front and organizes the songs that are sung, and perhaps directs the music, whether singing by the choir or others playing instruments. I have heard others talk about having a Bible reading together, and sometimes they speak of having “a little worship.” But neither of these is really worship.

Properly speaking, worship is not thanking the Lord for what He has done for us, although true worship may include that. Nor is worship praising the Lord for who He is, in all His majesty and glory, although once again, true worship may include praise. Worship is not really thinking about myself, but rather about God Himself, and His beloved Son the Lord Jesus. We see God as our Father, and the Spirit of God leads us in adoration for the knowledge of this relationship. We see in our verses today that we worship the Father, but we know that the Lord Jesus Christ has revealed the Father.

We also see in our verses that we must worship “in spirit and in truth.” They could not properly do that in the Old Testament, for they were not indwelt by the Holy Spirit back then. The word “worship” is used a number of times in the Old Testament, but it was not “true worship,” for they also did not have the real assurance of their salvation back then. It is only since the Lord Jesus has come and completed His work on the cross that we can truly worship.

It is also important to notice that God is not seeking worship; rather, He is seeking worshipers. But if we are worshipers, then worship will be the result. However, we will not be thinking about our worship (How lovely this hymn sounds! etc.); we will be thinking about the Lord Himself.

We can worship the Lord as individuals, but worship is more properly connected with our coming together to remember the Lord, as He has asked us to do. His Spirit is then free to lead out our hearts in worship, as we realize our relationship with God as Father, and how the Lord Jesus has brought us into that relationship.

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“The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and He knoweth them that trust in Him” (Nahum 1:7).

I have not used much poetry in these meditations, but this poem is exceptionally good. For this reason I am using the same verse as yesterday, together with a little story. This poem was written to the Stevens family in St. Ives, England in 1934 by a Christian brother, Frederick W. Lavington. The Stevens brothers were fishermen, and one night while out in their boat a terrible storm came up. One of the brothers lost his life. Mr. Lavington was a much beloved brother in Christ who lived in London, England, and he wrote this poem to comfort the family.

The Lord is good. Yea, none is good as He, Who called us from our darkness to His light, Gave us to know His Son, and ever be Conformed to His image in His sight. He is our strong hold in earth’s darkest hour, When seas run high and tempests shake the soul: His way is perfect, and no adverse power Can swerve His purpose from the eternal goal. “He knoweth,” yes, He knoweth all the way We take; each heavy trial is to mold Our wills to His, that we can truly say, “When He shall try me, I come forth as gold.” “He knoweth them that trust Him,” and His love Is worthy of our confidence entire; His end will show in those bright realms above The full accomplishment of all desire. Yea! Thou art good, our Father, and our lines Are fallen in pleasant places. Give us grace To know that for Thy glory all combines And for our good, until we see Thy face.

F. W. L.

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“The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and He knoweth them that trust in Him” (Nahum 1:7).

This verse, tucked away in the book of Nahum, has been a great comfort to many. The first chapter of Nahum is full of judgment, and tells us what the Lord is going to do in a coming day, when the Lord Jesus comes back to this world to take His rightful place. However, the goodness of God is always there, for God is good. He may have to bring judgment down upon the wicked, for He is a holy God, and must judge sin. But in that coming day of trouble, the Lord will protect those who follow Him. He will recognize them that trust in Him, and will be a strong hold for them.

You and I can take this verse, and apply it to ourselves too. There are plenty of problems in our Christian pathway through this world, and perhaps some of them are small problems. The Lord wants us to feel free to come to Him even with small difficulties, for He is never too busy to listen to us, and to help us with a problem.

However, sometimes we have a really big problem in our life, and it is almost more than we can bear. I knew a family some years ago whose house burned down, and it was a real blow to them. They were able to rebuild the house because they had insurance, but they lost many things in the fire that they could not replace. I remember another situation where the father lost his job and could not immediately find another one. He had a good job, and it was very hard for his family when suddenly they had no income. In still another family one of their children was killed suddenly by being hit by a car. All these were Christian families, and these events in their lives were very hard on them.

In these situations particularly we must remember that the Lord is good, and that He wants to be our strong hold in the day of trouble. A strong hold is normally a place where we can hide from trouble, and the Lord is able to do that for us. This does not mean that the trouble suddenly goes away, but He is our strong hold in the trouble.

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“And they set the ark of God upon a new cart … and Uzzah and Ahio … drave [drove] the new cart” (2 Samuel 6:3).

“Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God” (2 Samuel 6:6-7).

This was a very sad event in the history of David’s reign as king, and yet it teaches us something that is very important. The ark of God had been in the house of a man named Abinadab for twenty years. You may remember that the ark had been taken by the Philistines in battle, and God had sent serious trouble among the Philistines. The Philistines had sent it back, and it ended up in the house of Abinadab for many years. After all that time David wanted to bring it up to Jerusalem, where it belonged.

However, it is possible to do the right thing, but in the wrong way, and this is what happened. If David had read what the law of Moses said, he would have found out that only the Levites should carry the ark; it was not to be carried on a cart, even if it was a new one! But they put the ark on a new cart, and two young men drove the cart. When they came to a certain point, the oxen shook the ark, and in another place it says the oxen stumbled. No doubt Uzzah was afraid that the ark would fall off the cart, and he took hold of it to steady it. When he did this, the Lord smote Uzzah, and he died. What a sad ending to a happy occasion! David was very upset, and again the ark was carried into a house belonging to Obededom. It seemed to David like a very severe judgment for one act of holding the ark.

Later on, after several months, David had read the law, and realized that only the Levites should carry the ark. Then they brought it up to Jerusalem the right way, and God was honored in the way they did it.

In this world, sometimes people say that it does not matter how we do something, as long as we do it. But in spiritual things, God wants us to do things the right way. That is why He has given us His Word, and we are responsible to do things for the Lord according to the instructions He has given us. If we do something that is not according to God’s Word, the Lord may not strike us dead, as He did Uzzah, but the Lord will be displeased, and we will not enjoy His blessing in our lives as fully as we could.

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“Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us … and Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you … the Lord shall rule over you” (Judges 8:22-23).

“And his [Gideon’s] concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech” (Judges 8:31).

As we have seen earlier in these meditations, the Lord used Gideon to gain a great victory in battle, and to deliver the people of Israel from the domination of the Midianites. The Israelites were very grateful for this, and wanted Gideon to rule over them. In fact, they wanted him to become their king, so that his son would succeed him when Gideon died.

Gideon was a wise man, and he refused to take this place. He recognized that it was the Lord that had given him the victory over the Midianites, for you will remember that Gideon had only three hundred men, while the Midianites had more than 120,000 in their army. Gideon wanted the Lord to rule over Israel, and this was a good attitude for him to take.

However, later on in his life, when everything was peaceful in Israel, Gideon had a lot of children. It tells us that he had seventy sons! Can you imagine having that many children? Probably there were more, for he likely had some daughters too. But then he finally had one more son, whom he called Abimelech. This might not seem too unusual, except for the name he gave this son. Abimelech means “my father is king.”

It seems that Gideon must have had some secret ambition to be king, even though he refused it when he was younger. Giving this name to his son caused a lot of problems after Gideon died, for if you read on in Judges 9, you will find out that Abimelech killed all his brothers but one, in order to be the chief ruler. He knew what his name meant, and he acted on it. Eventually the Lord allowed him to be killed when a woman dropped a millstone on his head, but he caused a lot of sorrow in Gideon’s family.

Again, this is a serious lesson for us. Sometimes we know something is wrong, and we may refuse to do it, but deep down inside there is a secret wish that we could do it. Gideon’s secret wish made a lot of trouble for his family, and caused the death of all but one of his sons. If we know something is wrong, let us ask the Lord to help us get rid of that thought! If we hang on to that wrong thought, it will probably come out in our actions, sooner or later.

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“And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him … as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot [know] not what is become of him” (Exodus 32:1).

“And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the Lord, that He had done for Israel” (Joshua 24:31).

Perhaps you wonder why I have put these two verses together in today’s meditation, but there is definitely a connection between them. Let me try and explain it to you, and the lesson we can learn from these verses.

Some people like to be leaders, but most of us like to follow a good leader. This is true even in natural things. People like to follow a good boss at work, and they like to follow a good leader at the head of their country, whether a prime minister, a president, or a king. We also like a leader in spiritual things — someone who guides us in our Christian walk. This is especially true when we are young, for we often look for a “hero” whose life and character appeals to us. We see from our verses that this happened among the Israelites too.

They had good leaders, first of all in Moses, whom the Lord used to lead them out of the land of Egypt, and then Joshua, whom the Lord used to lead them into the land of Canaan. But what happened? Sadly, the people became occupied with the leader more than the Lord! When Moses stayed up in Mount Sinai for forty days, the people ended up making an idol out of gold — an idol like a calf! Then later, they followed the Lord as long as Joshua was alive, and the elders that outlived Joshua. But then it is recorded that “there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord” (Judges 2:10), and they began to worship idols again.

Why did the later generation not know the Lord? It was because they had looked to leaders whom the Lord gave them, instead of to the Lord Himself. Yes, God provides leaders to His people, and today He still gives us leaders and guides to help us. But no leader should take the place of the Lord. Those leaders can be a big help to us, but only when they help us to have a closer relationship with the Lord. Then, if the leader dies, or moves away, we can look directly to the Lord, and seek guidance from Him.

This is a most important lesson to learn when you are young. You may follow good leaders, and their example can be a big encouragement to us. However, if we get our eyes on them instead of the Lord, then, when the leader is gone, we will not be able to follow the Lord. Somehow we will think we need a human leader to follow, and if that leader is not there, we will seem lost. But the Lord wants us to have a direct relationship with Him. Then we will still be thankful for good leaders, but the Lord will be more important to us than the leader. If the leader is no longer there, we will only be drawn closer to the Lord, who will never disappear!

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“And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai … they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us … And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them … And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours” (Joshua 9:3, 6, 15-16).

If you read this whole chapter (Joshua 9), you will see that when Joshua and the Israelites began to conquer the land of Canaan, no one could stand before them. The two cities of Jericho and Ai were both defeated. A group called the Gibeonites decided to deceive Joshua and the others in Israel by pretending to have come a long journey from a faraway place. They wore old shoes and clothes, brought mouldy bread with them, and brought old wine bottles with them. Then they asked Joshua to make a league (a peace treaty) with them, and to let them live. Joshua and the Israelites believed them, but it says clearly that they “asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord” (Josh. 9:14). The Israelites made a league with the Gibeonites to let them live, and swore an oath in the name of the Lord. A few days later they found out that the Gibeonites had not come from a faraway place, but were actually some of the Canaanites whom the Lord had told the Israelites to destroy. However, since they had sworn to them in the name of the Lord, they could not touch them. They had to let them live, although they made them servants to cut wood and draw water (Joshua 9:27).

What lesson do we learn from this story? This is actually the second time that Joshua had neglected to go to the Lord for guidance. If you read about the city of Ai in Joshua 7 and 8, you will see that Israel decided by themselves how to go and fight against Ai, without consulting the Lord. But a man named Achan had sinned and had taken some valuable things from the city of Jericho, which the Lord had told them not to do. Joshua did not know this, but if he had looked to the Lord for guidance, the Lord would have told him. Now, with the Gibeonites, once again they acted without asking the Lord what to do, and ended up believing a lie. The Gibeonites remained in the congregation of Israel, and there was trouble with them hundreds of years later, in the reign of King Saul.

It is very important in our lives always to ask the Lord for guidance in any decision that we make. If you get used to doing this when you are young, it will become a habit, and you will continue to do it all your life. We may hear something that seems good to us, or we may read something that impresses us. Someone may give us some advice that we like, and perhaps we think we should act on it. But it is always good to ask the Lord what to do. He knows best, and He will never guide us in the wrong way.

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“And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them” (Acts 4:23).

Most people in this world like to be in the company of those with whom they feel at home. We may have to interact with strangers in our work, and perhaps we enjoy meeting new people from time to time. However, we all have those with whom we feel comfortable, and whose company we enjoy.

Even animals are like this, especially dogs. As you probably know, they have an unusual ability to find their way home, even if they are a long way from those they love. The farthest recorded distance that a dog has traveled to get back home is 3,218 km. across Australia. That is about 2,000 miles! We do not understand how a dog could find his way for that long distance, but God has given them that special ability.

Among the early Christians, as recorded in the book of Acts, there was often persecution, as various leaders among the Jews tried to stop the preaching of the gospel. On the occasion recorded in Acts 4, Peter and John had just healed a crippled man through the name of the Lord Jesus, and it had caused many to believe on Him. The Jewish leaders were upset about this, and commanded them not to speak in the name of the Lord Jesus.

As soon as they were released, we read in our verse for today that Peter and John “went to their own company” and told them what had happened. Together the whole group prayed to the Lord, asking Him to give them boldness to speak the word of the Lord. The Lord was with them, and the place where they were together was actually shaken, as a sign of the Lord’s power in supporting them.

This chapter shows us the two sides of our Christianity. On the one hand, as we have said, it is nice to be with our “own company,” among other Christians. We are all believers in the Lord Jesus, and we enjoy the same things. On the other hand, we are also to go out and speak to this world, telling them about the Lord Jesus. This is the way that others will be saved, and will also become part of our “own company.” We should do both of these things in our Christian life; we need the company of other believers, but we need to be a witness to this world too.

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“And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, it is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians” (Exodus 12:26-27).

The Israelites kept the Passover the night the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt and delivered the Israelites. But they were told to keep it every year, as a remembrance of what the Lord had done for them, and how He had passed over them because of the blood on the door.

As time went on, children would be born who did not remember the first Passover, and of course they would ask what it meant, when their parents kept it every year. Their parents were to explain to them how the Lord passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, but killed all the firstborn of the Egyptians. Then the children would in turn explain it to their children, and so on throughout many generations.

Sadly, the Israelites did not keep the Passover every year, as they were asked to do. As time went on, they turned away from the Lord and worshiped idols. Sometimes they had an ungodly king who brought idols into the country, and then they did not keep the Passover. At other times it seems that they simply got careless and forgot about it. We can be thankful for the times that they did keep it, but there were many years when it was not kept.

Perhaps some of you go with your parents to a meeting on Lord’s day where they remember the Lord Jesus in His death, using a loaf of bread and a cup of wine. We no longer keep the Passover, but rather the Lord Jesus showed His disciples how to remember Him with a loaf of bread and a cup of wine. If you do not understand all this, you should do as the Israelite children did; they asked their parents what the Passover meant. You can ask your parents what the remembrance of the Lord means. The Lord Jesus values it very much when we remember all that He did for us, in dying for us on the cross.

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