Enjoy the good things that God gives, knowing that this world obsessed with busyness, with its always-on, sleep-deprived, 24/7 compulsion to be God, will do what it can, when it can, to rob you of his joy. And when it tries, remember this: we trust in the only one who neither slumbers nor sleeps (Ps. 121:4). We trust in the one who created this world and upholds it by the word of his power (Heb. 1:3). We trust in the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end” (Rev. 22:13).
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In This Hope
We hope then for what we do not (yet) see, which rests on the bedrock of certainty that “since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God” (Rom. 5:1-2). Indeed, “those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified” (Rom. 8:30). From dust to glory is our destiny, a hope-filled truth to which we look with patient fortitude.[9] For, we know who promised, who delivered, and who sustains us, and he is our hope and salvation.
The Bond of Peace
In other words, maintaining peace in the local church is not a cause to fight for but an act of worshipful service to our Triune God. As we live out our faith in Christ in the local church “with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,” the “unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” is revealed.
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