Jude 1:24: “Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, / And to present you faultless / Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,”

August 24th, 2022 by Pastor Ed in devotional

For believers going through times of discouragement, this is one of the most encouraging verses to meditate on in the New Testament. It reminds us that God “is able to keep [us] from stumbling,” which is no small thing. We quickly find after becoming believers that we are not able to live up to God’s standards, even when we have the best intentions. But by His grace, God is sanctifying and changing us, enabling us to live for Him.

The nursery rhyme, “Humpty Dumpty,” started off as a riddle: “What, when broken, can never be repaired, not even by the strongest or wisest individuals?” The answer is of course an egg. No matter how hard one tries, a broken egg cannot be repaired. That is simply a reality of life. Like Humpty Dumpty, Adam and Eve also had a great fall, when the only thing God told them not to do, they did. They thought they would gain enough wisdom to be like God. But when the dust settled, they had fallen, breaking everything around them. Regardless of how hard humans have tried since, they cannot put things back together again.

But our Humpty Dumpty story doesn’t end with us broken, because God is able to put things back together. When Jesus Christ, God the Son, paid the ransom price for every broken-egg person who will ever live on this broken planet, He built a bridge back to fellowship with God. We must do as Paul told us in Romans 10:9–11:

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.

What a day it will be when Jesus presents us to Father God! He will be overjoyed to introduce us, broken souls that He has completely and perfectly repaired, into the fullness of heaven.

“LORD, we are so grateful that You are able when we are not. We place our whole weight upon You this day as Lord and Savior.”