Right Faith, Right Glory

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March 11 (24)

Heb. 11:24-26, 32-12:2; Jn. 1:43-51

Orthodoxy means “right glory” or “right faith”. Never forget the right word which you uttered to the Lord when the Covenant, broken on your part in bad faith, was renewed. Remember how and why you broke it and strive to be faithful henceforth.

No matter how glorious is the word, faith is yet more glorious. Isn’t it great to have a covenant with a king? How much greater, then, it is to have a Covenant with the King of kings! That glory, however, will be to your shame if you are not faithful to the Covenant. How many great men have been glorified since the beginning of the world — glorified for their faithfulness, for their firm standing in faith, in spite of all great tribulations and sorrows which their faith had brought about:

“They had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented: Of whom the world was not worthy: they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth... Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses... let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith” [Heb. 11:36-38, 12:1-2].

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