Something More Sure

On Sunday morning as I was having devotions and coming to God to prepare my heart to preach, I was reading in my Through the Bible reading plan in 2 Peter 1.  I was given a great encouragement by how Peter describes his faith.

"For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.  For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to Him by the Majestic Glory, "This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased," we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven."

In other words, Peter said, "We didn't make this stuff up; we saw Jesus on the mount of transfiguration; we saw His glory and we heard the voice from heaven."  But that makes what he says next so astounding:

"And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, which you will do well to pay attention to."

He says, "We saw the glory with our own eyes, we heard the voice from heaven with our own ears, but the Word of God is even more sure than that!"

Wow.  That was such an encouragement to me on Sunday, as I was preparing to preach a pretty heavy-duty sermon about sin.  I needed to hear that the Word of God is more sure than even a voice from heaven.  And it was also a huge encouragement to me and Sarah, as we have been struggling with a lot of post-college plans and trying to figure out when to get married and how we're going to make money, etc etc.  So often when you're waiting on God's timing, you wish He would just write His answer in the sky.  But 2 Peter reminds us that He doesn't need to; He has given us His Word, which is even more sure than a voice from heaven.