February 22nd

He has promised not to turn you away. “Whoever 

comes to me I will never cast out” (John 6:37). By this 

act of faith God will unite you to Jesus. You will be “in 

him,” and in him you will be now and forever loved, 

forgiven, and righteous. The light will rise in your dark­

ness in due time. God will hold onto you (Jude 24). You 

will make it. That is his promise: “Those whom he 

called he also justified, and those whom he justified he 

also glorified” (Rom. 8:30). The glory is coming. 

In the meantime, “this slight momentary affliction is 

prepar­ing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all 

com­parison, as we look not to the things that are seen but 

to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen 

are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” 

(2 Cor. 4:17-18). 

-John Piper