Your Most Holy Faith

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

Be merciful to those who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.

To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.

Jude 1:20-25

How do we look to Jesus? Do we look all scrubbed up in our Sunday best? No, He sees us as we really are. Covered with the dirt of sin. Jude’s promise to us was that Jesus will keep us from stumbling, and that He would present us as faultless.

How can we keep from looking like we don’t have a heavenly Father? As we become more yielded to His Spirit and His ways, He will help us make sure we are washed.

What a blessing that Jesus promises to take our stumbling, disheveled lives and present us as faultless to the Father. May we increasingly look like children of the King as we reflect on His loving care and attention.

To reflect the presence of the Father, we must rely on the Son.

Our Daily Bread – January 18, 2014