REMIND HIM of His promises to you today!
In Luke 2 we read that Jesus parents had taken Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord, “Every first born male is to be consecrated to the Lord”.
V25 Now there was in Jerusalem a man called Simeon, who was righteous and devout(many people are religiously observant but Simeon was firstly righteous).
V26,27 HE WAS WAITING for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. MOVED by the Spirit he went into the temple courts …
Simeon had a promise from God but he was moved by the Spirit to go into the temple courts just as Jesus was brought in. What a privilege to hold the Messiah in his arms and speak to Mary.
Simeon’s song(Nunc Dimittis)
Sovereign Lord, as you have promised,
You now dismiss your servant in peace.
For my eyes have seen Your salvation,
which You have prepared in the sight of all people,
a light for revelation to the Gentiles
and for glory to Your people Israel.
Simeon and Anna, I believe it’s significant that a man and a woman both came to greet Jesus arrival in the temple, both mature believers and both knew by the Spirit He was the Messiah.
Simeon had his promise, but he still had to follow the prompting of the Spirit and go to meet Jesus.
My late spiritual father, Kjell had a promise to be filled with the Holy Spirit on a certain date, I believe at a Christian camp. He went to bed that night and nothing had happened. As he lay in bed he knew he had to get up and get the others in his room to pray with him and he was filled.
Sometimes God is waiting for us to move, just like Simeon, so that He can make good His promises to us.
Don’t discard His promises to you today, move to meet Him.
God bless you.