Spurgeon's Daily Meditations
I know that my Redeemer liveth
“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.”
Hear the dying patriarch's confidence: 'I know.' Not 'I hope,' not 'I think,' but 'I know.' Faith here speaks like sight. Job sits on the ash-heap, scraped with potsherds, abandoned by friends, and from that desolation he affirms — I know that my Redeemer liveth.
My Redeemer — Job's own. The personal pronoun is the secret. Have you a Redeemer who is yours? It is not enough that there be a Christ; he must be Christ to thee — thy ransom, thy ransomer, the one who has bought thee back from the pit.
Liveth — present tense. The Redeemer was, when he died on Calvary; but he LIVETH, now, today. Death could not hold him; the grave could not keep him. He sits at the right hand of God, ever living to make intercession for those who come unto God by him. Bring him thy case today; he liveth — he hears, he intercedes, he saves.