{"id":2986,"date":"2009-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2009\/02\/friday-promises-associated-wit-2.html"},"modified":"2009-02-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T00:00:00","slug":"friday-promises-associated-wit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2009\/02\/friday-promises-associated-wit-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Friday: Promises Associated with His Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to “Praying the Names of Jesus.” If you missed the explanation for the name of
\nJesus we’re studying this week, click here<\/a> or scroll down to Monday’s entry.
\nThink of the most troubled marriage you know of. Living in such a marriage must be miserable, nearly intolerable. Maybe that’s how God felt about his relationship with his people, who had repeatedly responded to him like an unfaithful wife intent on pursuing affairs with other men. But rather than suing for divorce, God made the most gracious gesture imaginable. He came himself, in the person of Jesus Christ, to call his people back. Just like a Jewish groom, Jesus left his Father’s house to come and pay the bride price for his beloved. But instead of paying in so many coins, Jesus secured the marriage covenant with his own blood.
\nSome of us are so familiar with the gospel that we are dulled to the shocking evidence it contains – that God loves us as a bridegroom who is passionately in love with his bride. Let us pray today for the grace to understand the lengths to which God has already gone to unite us to himself. And let us heed the voice of Jesus who tells us not to let our hearts be troubled as we wait for him, but to take heart because he is preparing a place for us – not on the margins or outskirts of heaven, but right inside his Father’s house.
\nPromises in Scripture<\/b>
\n<\/p>\n

As a young man marries a maiden,
\nso will your sons marry you;
\nas a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
\nso will your God rejoice over you.<\/i> (Isaiah 62:5)
\nI will betroth you to me forever;
\nI will betroth you in righteousness and justice,
\nin love and compassion.
\nI will betroth you in faithfulness,
\nand you will acknowledge the Lord.<\/i> (Hosea 2:19-20)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.<\/i> (John 14:1-3)
\n–Ann Spangler
\nAdapted from “Praying the Names of Jesus<\/a>” by Ann Spangler, with permission. Each day for five weeks, learn to better understand the nature and character of Jesus through his many names. Did you miss any entries? Stay subscribed to this feed and you’ll receive the entries you missed once the feed restarts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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