TODAY’S TURNING POINT WITH DR. DAVID JEREMIAH DAILY DEVOTIONAL 31 JULY 2024 MESSAGE
Read David Jeremiah Daily Devotional 31 July 2024, Wednesday Turning Point Devotional Message
TOPIC: The Abiding Presence
Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory. – 1 Peter 1:8
Recommended Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-8
In His Upper Room sermon in John 13–17, Jesus prepared His disciples for His departure. They had enjoyed His physical, visual presence for three years, but now He was leaving them—by His death, resurrection, and ascension to heaven. He explained He was leaving in order to send His Spirit who would be with them and in them (John 14:17).
Years later, Peter told his readers that we can still love, trust, and rejoice in Christ even if we don’t presently see Him. We have His Spirit, making Him real to us, and the Holy Spirit can be with every believer across the world at once.
That’s why we must abide in Christ. We can enjoy His abiding presence by the indwelling Holy Spirit until that day when we see our Lord face to face. Today, ask the Lord to fill you with the Holy Spirit, and rejoice in His presence.
The branch of the vine does not worry, toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine.
J. Hudson Taylor
Read-Thru-the-Bible: Isaiah 57 – 59
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