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 PSALM 119:163

"Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble."

If God is the source of life, then His Word will give life. When God speaks, what He says will come to be. Therefore, His Word cannot err. God has testified about His eternal Son, the Word made flesh, Jesus Christ.

1 John 5:11-12 reads, "And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life."

The Lord God has made it clear that eternal Life is His gift to all who will believe. That eternal Life is in His Son, Jesus Christ. To believe what God has said, to receive what He has revealed by His own Word, to trust Him as the Source and Substance of Life eternal, to rely on Him and trust Him for the Power of the Holy Spirit to follow Him, THAT is what it means to love God's Word, His commandments.

The Lord, Eternal Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit speaks to us, revealing Himself to us through His Word written. The Holy Spirit causes that Word to come alive within us, transforming us, correcting us, comforting us, showing He has forgiven us because of what Jesus Christ did for us. By Jesus' dying our death on the cross, bearing the full measure of God's just judgement on the whole of our sin and rebellion, by His grace we can know God's forgiveness; we can become heirs of God, new creations in Christ Jesus.

It is in the word of God that the peace that God gives, His shalom, wholeness of life is revealed. To understand, believing what God has said, that we are known, forgiven by grace through faith and that we now belong to Him as His own sons and daughters is the ground of unshakable peace.

Romans 8:31-39 "What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Those who love God's Word have great assurance, great peace for they are held by God. They may stumble, but they will not be utterly cast down, for the Lord will uphold then with His Hand. The eternal God is our refuge, and underneath are His everlasting Arms. The Good Shepherd leads us. We are not left alone to try and get along by our own devices. We are secure. We are loved. We are His.

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