Happy December, Friends!

We have come to the end of our journey through the Bible, discovering God's Promises in 2021. You can read our introductory post about why I chose this topic HERE. If you started with us in January, congratulations! You are about to inscribe the end of a 365 day journey and it has been wonderful.
This month, we are set to discover thirty-one more promises of God in Scripture.

John 13:1
"Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end."

As we come to the end of our 365-day journey through The Promises of God, I am feeling abundantly grateful. I am thankful that we serve a God who fulfills every promise. I am grateful that all of the promises of God are yes and Amen in Christ Jesus, and I am grateful that our God does not change. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

To take this journey through The Promises of God, we have used a devotional by Charles Spurgeon to give us our references and a small study on the inscribed verses. I am thankful for Faith's Checkbook, which has been a very helpful resource during this year.

Let's go once more to The Word of God and look at a devotion from John 13:1. As we look toward the end of the year and as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, we remember this divine promise:

"Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end." - John 13:1

“This fact is essentially a promise; for what our LORD was He is, and what He was to those with whom He lived on earth, He will be to all His beloved so long as the moon endureth.

“Having loved”: here was the wonder! That He should ever have loved men at all is the marvel. What was there in His poor disciples that He should love them? What is there in me?

But when He has once begun to love, it is His nature to continue to do so. Love made the saints “his own”-what a choice title! He purchased them with blood, and they became His treasure. Being His own, He will not lose them. Being His beloved, He will not cease to love them. My soul, He will not cease to love thee!

The text is well as it stands: “to the end.” Even till His death the ruling passion of love to His own reigned in His sacred bosom. It means also to the uttermost. He could not love them more: He gave Himself for them. Some read it, to perfection. Truly He lavished upon them a perfect love, in which there was no flaw nor failure, no unwisdom, no unfaithfulness.

Such is the love of Jesus to each one of His people. Let us sing to our Well-beloved a song.”
- Charles Spurgeon, Faith’s Checkbook.

As you Inscribe the Promises of God this month, my prayer is that you are filled with an overwhelming knowing that you are deeply loved by Jesus and that He gave Himself for you because of that love.