Redeemer
DAY 61 WRITTEN BY: TRE WIGGINS-
Job 19:25
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
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Sometimes faith is viewed as the antithesis to certainty. After all, not one person living has ever “seen” God. That’s often given as a “gotcha” to people who try to share their faith with others. Those receiving the message counter with, “well, if you could just show me proof, I would believe.” This, of course, isn’t true. The Old Testament (and the New Testament, frankly) is full of “proofs” for God, in His specific revealing of Himself to His people, only to see their unfaithfulness to Him time and again.
Still, just because we have faith doesn’t mean we can’t have certainty. Here’s what the Apostle wrote in 1 John 5:13: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.” So that you MAY KNOW. Job’s confidence was in his certainty that his Redeemer was alive. Do we share in that same confidence? Where is our hope in such a statement? Here’s an elementary answer: “for the Bible tells me so.” And it’s sufficient!
Our hope is in the certainty we have that Jesus lives. We know He lives because the Bible tells us He does. We are primarily confident in that. We also have the assurance of what His Spirit has done in our lives through our belief in Him. We know He lives in us.
We can have assurance, but it takes faith. Our faith stakes itself on a Redeemer who lives. And because He lives, our hope is certain.
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Father, we bank our lives on the fact that Jesus lives. We know He died for our sins, but on the third day, He rose again in victory. If Jesus is dead, all is for naught. We know that the grave is empty, sin and death are defeated, and we will one day be with You to enjoy You forever in eternal bliss. Thank you for the life and death and the life of Jesus!
