Daily Journal: 16 October

The Gift of Your Destiny

Ephesians 2:10 (BSB)

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NASB 1995)

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Psalm 86:13 (NIV)

For great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths, from the realm of the dead.

Reading: What Is Sheol? Article by Matthew Y. Emerson on Desiring God website:

ABSTRACT: Several dozen times throughout Scripture, the word “Sheol” appears with reference to the afterlife. The Old Testament portrays Sheol as the bunker of humanity’s enemy, the devil, and the exilic wilderness away from the Promised Land. Yet Sheol is also under God’s authority, and Old Testament saints testified to his power to raise people up from the depths of Sheol. In Jesus, God did just that: he entered the realm of the dead himself, defeating death and the grave, and filling the darkness of Sheol with the light of his resurrection.

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-is-sheol#:~:text=To%20put%20it%20geographically%2C%20it,dead%20do%20not%20remember%20him.

1 Peter 3:18 (AMPC)

For Christ [the Messiah Himself] died for sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous (the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty), that He might bring us to God. In His human body He was put to death, but He was made alive in the spirit,

Roman 6:7-8 (NIV)

because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

Revelation 5:9-10 (NLV)

They sang a new song, saying, “It is right for You to take the book and break its locks. It is because You were killed. Your blood has bought men for God from every family and from every language and from every kind of people and from every nation. You have made them to be a holy nation of religious leaders to work for our God. They will be the leaders on the earth.”

Further reading for The Gift of Your Destiny: Hebrews 10, Revelation 5