November 10, 2025

GOD’S WORD FOR TODAY:

“See, the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a driving wind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back until He fully accomplishes the purposes of His heart. In days to come you will understand this.“

(Jeremiah 30.23-24)

TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD:

I will respond to the above closing to Jeremiah’s prophetic writing this way: God will be done when God says so and not until then. God will always have the last word. His silence often speaks volumes and declares them more loudly than the violence and rhetoric formulated by humankind. As Jesus knelt and prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane before His arrest by the Temple Guards, He resolved, “Not My will but Yours, Abba, be done.” The whole of Jesus’s life from beginning to end was a demonstration of faith and righteousness in action. He set the example for godly living so that every human being would have a visible and tangible benchmark by which to determine for themselves how they should live. We see the end result, thanks to the gospel writers, and therefore know how our own lives can end up. Jesus never stopped believing even when death was the inevitable consequence.

If you stop to think about the last hours of His ministry, you know it doesn’t end in the Garden of Gethsemane nor in the Garden Tomb. It ends at the Mount of Transfiguration where Jesus commissioned His disciples to go and do what He had been doing. The scope of their ministry would eventually reach the entire world. The depth of their ministry would be filled with the same challenges as He experienced. The height of their success would follow after Him all the days of their lives. Jesus’ ministry did not stop with His crucifixion. Believers girded themselves with faith and approached the ruling authorities for permission to care for the body of Jesus and provide a proper burial. They had no need to worry about caring for His spiritual body. It had been surrendered already into the hands of God. Jesus spoke those very words Himself from the cross. He was buried just like every other human being. He was laid to rest but He did not rest. Peter speaks of Jesus descending after death into the very province of the dead. (1 Peter 3.19) It was there He preached the Good News and some believed and were liberated from what would have been their eternal bondage without God’s mercy and grace. Having completed His ministry to both the living and the dead, His rest was over and He Himself was liberated from the Garden Tomb to spend another forty days on earth preparing the disciples and other believers for what was yet to come in their own lives. Even then, the work of Christ was not done. We know from Jesus Himself as He sat at table celebrating the Passover with His disciples the description of His work in Heaven. In John 14.3-10, Jesus said, “I go away to prepare a place for you because in My Father’s House there are many rooms. If I go away, then know I will be coming back to take to be where I AM going.” Jesus is still working to complete the will of His Father in Heaven. He does so as we, mighty ones of God, manifest His presence, the abiding Immanuel, on earth preaching the gospel and walking by faith to do His mighty works on earth as it is in Heaven.

The message is clear. In all seasons of life, God is not finished yet. And as in the closing words of Jeremiah, “In days to come you will understand this.…” and so will the world. Choose which side of the work you will be on, mighty ones, and choose wisely.

TODAY’S PRAYER IN RESPONSE TO GOD’S WORD:

Father, in these days we are finding the need to believe even more than ever before. We all have known trouble, some in greater ways than others, but You are offering us the assurance that we will not be consumed by it forever. Regardless of the “time” we are in and the “time” we have been given, we ask for Your Holy Spirit which Jesus asked You to share with us, to lead and guide and direct us in the paths we should go. Teach us what we still need to learn. Empower us to put that learning into action. Bless our actions not as a works righteousness but as righteous works of faith, hope and love in Jesus’ name. AMEN.