Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Jude 1:21 Through today’s verse, Jude is exhorting us to keep ourselves in the love of God. Does he mean we need to do something that God will start to love us, or do we need to do something that God will continue…

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us. Isaiah 33:22 When Isaiah wrote this, Israel was a “Theocracy.” A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God. Isaiah is using that analogy to speak the divine reality. If you were to take this verse and replace…

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. 1 John 3:21 Sometimes our hearts condemn us by constantly reminding us of our failures and shaming us. That affects our confidence to come before God in prayer. John says in 1 John 3:20 that “if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all…