Temperance Of Fact

On this the final day of the second full week in 2026, let us pause for a moment to spread out before us what we have been given. May God the Holy Spirit aid us in viewing with unshaded eyes, uncluttered minds and subdued hearts, the undeniable knowledge that in God’s Infallible Word, the Invisible God is made visible, by faith, to each accepting believer. From the onset of this most precious week, we have trusted our Lord to take us, and move us from faith to faith.

Hasn’t our God been faithful to do just that? In simple, practical, understandable and accessible ways, His Holy Spirit has been feeding us all week, through one single, main Bible text. Then the angel said to them, Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. Luke 2: 10. This text has been offered to us as a seven-branch candelabra, from which seven undeniable facts have been brought to us. Six of the seven have already been offered. They came as Trinity facts, Testimony facts, Truth facts, Trinket facts, Treasure facts and Trophy facts. We now conclude with the seventh and final light of our seven-branch, candelabra-like Bible text.

The seventh light displays the Temperance of Fact - Then the angel said to them, Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people.

If indeed temperance is the quality of self-restrain, discipline to bring oneself into subjection and orderliness, to be and do as our Heavenly Father requires, then this text is no mean example of such. If we have really spread out before us what we have already been fed on, and are still feeding upon, this fact stands tall and central before us. It is the fact that the entire text carries the working of the Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit – in unveiled beauty. Graciously and gloriously, this single text also bears testimony to the wisdom of temperance, where one is called into the action of sincere, true and genuine discipline. Here are some facts.

Then the angel said to them.

Temperance is needed to steel oneself away from all that will show and tell you that angels are but of the past. Know the disciple of trusting God and His angels, and the discipline of distrusting all others. 

Do not be afraid.

Temperance is extremely crucial here, to be able to wrestle with constant ploys of the enemy, trying to keep you in needless fear. Follow the discipline of obeying God’s words of, fear not, and shun all other fakes.

For behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy.

Temperance demands resoluteness of faith and trust, so that even when all around speaks and sparks of bad tidings and great sorrows, stubborn faith holds you fast in Jesus, Saviour of the world. 

Which shall be to all people.

Temperance gives you eyes, hearts and minds of hope, for all people, as you desist the temptation to cast aside anyone as unregenerate or irredeemable. Jesus is still the Good News for any and every sinner, as He calls.

We conclude, holding high the seven-branch, candelabra Bible text, brightly glowing with attributes of who our Invisible God is. He delights in making Himself seen, heard, felt and known. This came to us in these undeniable, unarguable and undisputable facts. Trinity facts, Testimony facts, Truth facts, Trinket facts, Treasure facts, Trophy facts and Temperance facts.

We leave this week, most thankful and totally surrendered to our Father in heaven, who is God and Lord of all, fully cognizant of the fact that our Immortal, Invisible God, delights in having Himself seen and known by mortals, as He instructs and directs.