March 22, 2023
Daily Devotion:
"God's Anointing Cannot
Fail"
But the anointing which ye
have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you:
but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no
lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
This anointing is God’s
choice, not ours. But remaining or abiding in Him is our choice. These choices
are not equal. Our choice is made in response to His and could only be made
because of His. Because of this anointing, we bear a responsibility to obey His
commands, an effort that is guaranteed to succeed because of His help. To stay
faithful to the truth of the gospel is to abide with God and to walk in the
light. Because of this we can stand “confident and unashamed” when Christ
return. We have nothing to fear but can look forward to this day with assurance
of our salvation. Having been made righteous, following Him who is perfectly
righteous, and doing what is right is incontrovertible evidence that we have
been truly “born of him.” This confidence is not in ourselves, then, but in
God. His anointing cannot fail!
