Rejoicing In The Word For Ladies – True Faith (October 2025)
Have you ever bitten into what you thought was a soft, gooey, chocolate chip cookie, but instead you sunk your teeth into a disappointing raisin?! That troubling turn of events may have caused you to leave the rest of the cookie on your plate! Unexpected changes and disappointed expectations are part of life. What a blessing to serve the God Who is the same yesterday, today, and forever!
God’s Word says, “Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.” (Psa. 102:25-27)
The book of Jude was written to those who are preserved in Christ Jesus. Jude wrote to exhort them that they should “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” This is the true faith which has been the bulwark of saints throughout the ages… the bold faith of Old Testament prophets, the “unfeigned faith” of young Timothy, a “Hebrews 11” kind of impossible faith.
1) True faith is unchanging in the face of false doctrine. “For there are certain men crept in unawares…ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance…” Jude v. 4-5.
2) True faith is unchanging in changing times. “Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage” Jude v. 11&16.
3) True faith is unchanging because it rests in the person of Jesus Christ and the eternal grace of God. “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy” Jude v. 24.
I am reminded of a line from the Swedish hymnist, “More secure is no one ever than the loved ones of the Savior.”
Praise the Lord for true faith in the God Who never changes! (V.K.S.)
“More Secure Is No One Ever”
By Lina Sandell Berg
More secure is no one ever,
Than the loved ones of the Savior;
Not yon star on high abiding,
Nor the bird in home-nest hiding.
God His own doth tend and nourish,
In His holy courts they flourish;
Like a father kind He spares them,
In His loving arms He bears them.
Neither life nor death shall ever
From the Lord His children sever;
For His love and deep compassion,
Comforts them in tribulation.