Reading
SAA Notes
This warning Do not be yoked together with unbelievers is for our comfort and well-being. This warning is for before you commit! Yoked means to be legally tied to someone in business or in any other relationship, such as marriage. Paul has already dealt with the situation where this is already so – 1 Cor.7:12-14.
SJA Notes
* Loving God, thank You for breathing out Your word to us so that we can read and be fed today.
“For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.”
Sorrow falls upon us all, throughout our days – Coming heavy and heavier.
Godly grief produces repentance. Worldly grief produces death.
So.
What do we Jesus-believers do with our sorrow, our grief – as opposed to the world around us?
Peter in his letters gives us the antidote,
“… Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
And what of our King, what does He know of sorrow?
The prophet Isaiah foretells,
“Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;”
So then, what does our eternal hope have to say about sorrow?
We read in the book of Revelation,
“He will wipe away every tier from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
In our grief and sorrow, no matter the wound, we have an antidote!
We have a Saviour and King who not only knows our wounds, but has borne them out fully!
And we have a hope, sure and steady, that one day all sorrow and grief will be no more.
Hallelujah, what a Saviour!
* Father God,
Thank You, O Lord – Our hope is in You. Your love for us, Your steadfast love and faithfulness.
Amen.