FAITH CAPSULE: Get to know the truth about trust and hope in the Lord and be free.
Acts 16
The boldness and character of Paul and Silas were trust and hope in the truth of God, to live life for the glory of God.
When Paul commanded a spirit out of girl to affect the profit of the masters, Paul and Silas were seized and dragged to jail. (Acts 16:19)
While at midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God. As they sang, a great earthquake caused the foundations of the prison broken, and immediately all the doors were opened with everyone’s chains loosed. Paul and Silas did not flee but waited and spoke a word that gave salvation to the hearers and led a family to baptism.
With trust comes a character, while with hope comes boldness. Paul and Silas demonstrated that they know the truth, and they were free from prison.
Without a doubt, the word of God is the truth.
Indeed, the truth, the way, and life is one that cannot be separated.
Thomas, among the disciples of Jesus, said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way? Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:5-6)
Jesus is the word of God.
Do you know the truth?
Are you abiding in the word?
To abide in the word is to know the truth.
Know the truth is the key, but knowing about completes not.
Just like Paul and Silas, abide in the word, the evidence that you know the truth, to be free. (John 8:31-32)
In the wicked world, get to know the truth about trust and hope in the Lord and be free.
In this world, let trust and hope in the Lord be complete in you, the position to be blessed by God.
Jeremiah 17:7 buttresses, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.”
Are you claiming trust without hope?
Claiming trust in the Lord is not complete without claiming hope in Him.
Do you trust and not hope?
Trust is like a character hope is like confidence. Many trusts on God (they are active in church) and could hope that is the boldness to stand claim in God.
Trust is like a character; Hope (confidence) is like boldness.
Do you have trust and hope, boldness, and character?
It is boldness and character that makes you free, a mark of a winner.
Saul trusted God, and he waited for seven days as commanded by Samuel. However, when all his people were scattered, he lost hope and had no confidence in the word of God by prophet Samuel.
Saul trusted to wait but had no hope to stand, wait through for God, and could not be free but lost. (1 Samuel 13)
As an acclaimed believer, with trust and hope, the truth of the word of God will make you free.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to grow in trust and hope in His word.