Stand firm. Hold fast
Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord,
Your salvation according to your promise. Psalm 119:41
Read 2 Thessalonians 2:13—17
The first flush of faith when I am awakened to Christ by the Spirit, or the re-awakening that can come at any points along the way — it can happen on retreat, or during a season of teaching, a course of study, an unplanned Godly encounter, or whatever God is up to in my life. This spiritual awakening brings with it God’s promise that I am a first fruit. There’s more to come. I’m promised more. There are more of the things of God to be grown within me. And there are more people to come into this salvation. And there is a whole fulfilment to come for the world. So my life needs to be patterned always for the growing. This time is part of that. I am still being patterned by the apostles’ gathered teachings when I open my Bible. I can still get a letter from dear Paul. I can still be comforted. I can still be strengthened. I can still be put to find the good work and the good word.
Dear Father, in Christ, through the Spirit, in my Bible, in my church fellowship, you have given me moments where I have been awake and alive to you. I pray that in the routine of devotion, in my reading, in my prayer, you will continue this. That you will awake and re-awaken me to yourself. That you will find me teachable. That you will shape my works and my words for good and for God. For my life is no longer my own but yours.