Bible Verse of the Day Tuesday Janurary 3rd 2023

 2 Timothy 2:12 if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us.

According to world standards, the Christian life is not the most comfortable life that one might seek to endure. Once we accept Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior, some friends might not understand and ridicule us. Some members of our own family may scorn or deride the path in Christ Jesus we have chosen to follow. Our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus, lived His earthly life filled with scorn, ridicule, and suffering. Even with the most extreme ridicule we might encounter, we will never know even a tiny spec of the pain and suffering Jesus endured.

If we will but endure, we will reign with Him now during this period of grace and rule and reign with Him during the thousand years He is on the earth (Revelation 20:4-6). Those that endure will also reign with Him throughout eternity in the "New Heaven and the New Earth (Revelation 21:1-8). The reward for our endurance with Christ Jesus on this earth is so far beyond any human or worldly concept or perception that human thought patterns cannot explain it.

One can deny Christ Jesus with words like many Jews did during His earthly ministry. Many on that day would not accept that Jesus was the true promised Messiah. It is also possible to deny the Holy name of Christ Jesus as the only way to Father God. This denial is because people want to hold on to their pride and falsely believe that there are some good works or deeds they can do to gain the recognition of God. The scriptures are unambiguous in the truth that if one denies Christ Jesus in this life,  all He has done for humanity through His sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary and continues to do, He will deny them before the Father (Matthew 10:33).

As long as we breathe in our mortal bodies, we have time to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior and surrender our lives to Him. All of the faithlessness of humans cannot move the needle of God's faithfulness, even a spec on the gauge of eternity. No matter when we choose to surrender our lives to Christ Jesus and make God's will for our lives, our will, Jesus will come into our lives and reign with us. Some of us have wandered off the path of Christ Jesus at times and realized, much like the prodigal son, that we need to come back to our Heavenly Father's loving arms. Just as the prodigal son's father prepared a great feast for his wandering son, our Father in Heaven has prepared, for all that believe and follow Him, a banquet without worldly comparison that will last for eternity.