Contemplative Bible Reading

Jude 1:24 (New Living Translation)

24 Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault.

There is much in this short letter from a man named Jude. In this sentence, Jude praises God for some of God’s abilities. Listen to this one:

God is able to bring me into God’s presence without a single fault.

Me? Well, I’m a pretty good fella’, you know. I do lots of nice things for folks and so on. But, well, uh, I do have my faults. Just ask some people who know me. They’ll tell ya’.

God, however, takes away every one of my faults. Every single one. That includes that one over there that I don’t like to admit. And that includes that other one over in that other corner of my life. Every single one is taken way.

Faultless is the only way I can come into the presence of God. And this is what God does so I can come into God’s presence. How powerful is God? Move mountains? Conquer nations? Yes, all that, but requiring more power is to remove every single one of my faults. And God does that for me. Thank you God.