He will do it!

Hebrews 1:3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, We are encouraged from verse 3 that Jesus is the source and sustainer of our lives—our circumstances and our relationships. He upholds all things by the word of His power. The word upholds is synonymous with carrying, bringing forth, or making all things. The idea is that everything is from and through Him. This isn’t the only place we learn that Jesus upholds all things. The apostle Paul wrote, “Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him” (1 Cor. 8:6). The apostle John explained Jesus this way. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being” (John 1:1-3). John called Jesus the word, the logos, which communicates what the author of Hebrews said when he wrote that Jesus is the exact representation of His nature. Jesus isn’t part of the Divine nature; He is the whole Deity according to W.E. Vines. However, in Heb. 1:3, Jesus brings everything into being by the rhema of His power. When Jesus, the logos, speaks, the Spirit of God makes things happen—brings forth what has been spoken into reality. Jesus has jurisdiction over all things. Because He created all things by His word as this author says in Heb. 11:3. “The worlds were prepared by the word (the rhema) of God,” He need only speak, and it comes into being. He told the wind and waves to be still, and they obeyed. He gave instruction to the demons, and they obeyed. He commanded the dead to rise, the blind to see, and the lame to walk; and they did. There’s nothing that occurs in the history of man that isn’t upheld by the power of His word. What does this have to do with living to love with Jesus? Because this is true, we believe there is only one God from whom are all things, and He is love. We filter all things in our lives through this incredible, unchanging, profound truth. Therefore, we believe He is the source of our love. He is able and willing to accomplish what He wishes through our love for His glory. The faith we need to live to love with Jesus comes through His rhema that upholds all things. We learn this from Paul in Rom. 10:17. “So faith comes by hearing, but hearing by the rhema of Christ.” This Jesus-generated faith works through love. Jesus said, “If you abide in Me, and My words (rhemas) abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples” (John 15:7-8). Today, our confidence as we love with Jesus rests on the rhema of God abiding in us through whom the fruit of God in our lives is brought forth. He will do it!