Redeemer Archives – Sonshine's Journal

April 19, 2024April 19, 2024

I know my redeemer lives….

1 Peter 1 Even in his suffering, Job could exclaim: As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.[Job 19:25] Peter echoes that same thought in our reading today. “Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold,but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.” [1 Peter 1:18-19]

Peter also reminds and encourages the reader with these words. You may not have seen Christ, “in the flesh” but you love Him. This is a challenge to us. Do we love Christ whom we have not seen? Do recognize Him as our redeemer?Are you singing this hymn “Turn your eyes upon Jesus” today? Are you turning your eyes upon Jesus?

Today a precious saint is singing those words in “heaven time,” as she entered the gates there last night at 12:05 a.m. and now she sees Him face to face. How about you? Are you ready? Do you know the Redeemer

January 8, 2023January 8, 2023

Is God your Redeemer?

Job 19 As Job sat in dust and ashes and listened to his miserable comforters, he echoed the words of Solomon: “My assailants revile and conspire against me all day long.” [Lam 3:62] Yet, in all this, God’s words ring forth; Job is “a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.” God knew Job could be trusted to face adversity. “In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.” [Job 1:22]

Job not only knew but truly believed this truth: that no matter what is going on or what will transpire in the future, he can trust that his “Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.”

How about us in the midst of severe suffering? Do we cling to that truth? Is God our redeemer? Are we able to say as Paul: “I have learned to be content in any circumstance.” [Phil 4:11]

August 13, 2022August 13, 2022

Jesus our Redeemer

Isaiah 52-54 Redeemer!

Isaiah echoes the voice of Job: As for me, “I know that my Redeemer lives and
that as the last he will stand upon the earth].” [Job 19:25] Over and
over, Isaiah reminds the children of God that they are redeemed. “You
shall be redeemed without money.” [Is 52:3 NJJV] “He has redeemed
Jerusalem.” [Is 52:9 NKJV] The redemption price was exorbitant; it was
the very life of Christ, the Servant, who bore the iniquities of us all upon
his body.

We stand redeemed because of His sacrifice; He bore our iniquities that we might stand
righteous in His sight. The crucifiers made His grave with the wicked, but
Joseph of Arimathea, the rich man, offered his tomb for Christ to fulfill the
words of God. [Is 53:9-11 NKJV] “But with everlasting kindness, God says, He
will have mercy upon them because he is the Lord their Redeemer.” [Is 54:8
paraphrase]

In 1775, Samuel Medley captured this thought in his hymn: “I know that my Redeemer
lives! What comfort this sweet sentence gives! He lives, he lives, who once was
dead; he lives, my ever living head!”

Stop and praise Him for His marvelous work of redemption. “The Lord of Hosts is His
name, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.” [Is 54:5 NKJV]

Scriptures today from NKJV.

December 26, 2019

Finishing out 2019

Revlation Jesus It is fitting as we draw to a close this year to finish our daily reading in the Book of the Revelation. As we leave this year may we consider that the focus is always the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. As John fittingly wrote: Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!

John’s message is again “grace and peace” from the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth; from the one who loved and loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood.

When we began in January of 2019 we began at the beginning and now we are here at the end and yet it is the beginning once again. God revealed His plan in Genesis and now we see that the plan was always about His Son, Jesus Christ and His work as Redeemer for the sin that started us down that path drawing us to the redemption for our sin. He stands in the midst of the golden lampstands dressed in his royal kingly garments and one day “we will be like him because we will see him just as he is.”[ 1John 3] as he returns in the clouds. He is the Alpha and Omega, the one who is, and who was and who is still to come. He was revealed to take away sins so that we who accept him may have confidence and not shrink away from in shame when he comes back.

Are you prepared to meet him and hear the voice of the archangel with the trump of God? Encourage one another with these words.