A weekly Devotional – Faith – Personal Meditation

A weekly Devotional – Faith – Personal Meditation

Comment: How good is good? Ever go to a store for something and find that there are several strengths of a fabric, or some other item? And then you notice; Good, Better and Best buy. An urge to switch the signs might cross one’s mind, but if you came to get a good one, the best won’t matter, will it? Or, Will It? When we seek God, does the thought cross our mind of good, better or best? I would hope not, but all too often people are willing to accept, or expect far less of, or from God, than what is revealed in His Word and given to us freely. By inheritance, God’s children have much more than, that of the world. They do not understand what they have in Christ and sadly many miss the joy and peace of being a child of our God, one  who is alive with blessing and love. All that we are in Christ comes to us through our ‘trust’ (faith) in the Word of Truth. Having believed God, in Christ we were ‘sealed’ with the Holy Spirit of ‘promise’. Take a moment and read Ephesians 1:3-14.

Devotional: Truth, God’s Word is Truth. If I say to you that I am telling you the truth; that truth, because of the world we live in can be ‘good truth’, ‘better truth’, or the ‘best truth’! Since my nature is given to LIES now and then, it cannot be “Absolute Truth” which belongs to God alone. My truth will fall short of the high mark of God’s Character revealed through His Word. One attribute of God is that it is impossible for God to lie. See Numbers 23:19 and Titus 1:2.

Now I believe we are ready for John 8:31-36 – Connect verse 30 to 31; As He spoke these words many believed on Him. Then Jesus said to those who believed on Him. “If you abide in my word, you are my disciple indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Do you get the sense of this statement of Jesus? Is there a difference between a believer and a disciple? I believe there is! All believers go to be with Christ in the coming eternal kingdom, but not all believers are ‘disciples’.

A disciple is one who does not settle with just believing alone, but one who involves himself or herself in study of the truth; that is the depths of God’s love in what God has already accomplished through the death, burial and resurrection of His Son Jesus the Messiah/Christ. God has rescued us out of the slave market of sin and placed us in the kingdom of His Beloved Son. Yet some of us seem to be walking around as though ‘chained’ to a heavy burden.

Take the time to read Ephesian 1:3-14 understand what God has provided for us, of what we have in Christ. If you did not read this section, it could be that you are still bound to some of your ‘selfish’ sinful flesh. The disciple is the believer who takes God serious, who studies to show themselves approved of God. While the believer is one who settles for the good truth of being saved, but wonders about in the things of the world. While the disciple seeks seeks not for the better of what God provides, but seeks to abide in the perfect will of God on earth. Matthew 6:9-13, he or she comes to joy and peace with God through the best that God has to offer.

Jesus answered them. “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave to sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore, is the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”

A Weekly Devotional – perilous times – Personal Meditation

A Weekly Devotional – perilous times – Personal Meditation

Comment: The ability to do things during a day in this land is a subject of concern in these troubling times, yet we hardly discuss the sources that drive us. If we are students of the WORD of God, we understand that there are only two sources. Good and Evil, these are active opponents in the lives of us humans. However, most of us would say that we are good and do good. While, only a few would say that they do evil. This conclusion is a human error and here is why! We cannot separate good from evil in the course of a day, individually while seeking to do good we are motivated to do evil as well! Now I know this sounds a bit obscure, but notice what Satan says to Eve. Genesis 2:5 – For God KNOWS that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, KNOWING “good and evil”.

Devotional: In this fallen condition of ‘knowing good and evil’ we are our own ‘god’ and we have deserted the Sovereign God. If we were to look at “any” one individual, we could certainly pick him or her apart and find this co-existing 'good and evil'. Current events in our liberal and fake media sources of today proves this point, but what about the nation? I am reminded of a the nation Israel during those days when she rejected God. The days when “Judges” ruled and in the book of Judges, in the last verse of the book we read. “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes".

As a nation we have taken  this thought a step further; we have a king, yet we seek to do what is good and right in our own eyes, YET evil prevails. These are the days we now live! 2 Timothy 3:1-7 – But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

A Weekly Devotional – Coming Again – Personal Meditation

A Weekly Devotional – Coming Again – Personal Meditation

Comment: We live in interesting times, it seems to me that evil is surpassing the good that man can do, and that many of the thoughts of man are currently EVIL. Also, I am sure that I do not stand alone in this thought! However, there was a day in history (circa 2300BC) that only God observed this trend of evil, as all of the thoughts of man were continually EVIL. In Genesis 6:7 the LORD made this statement. “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have them.” Fortunately, one man on the earth found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Now my thoughts are why would God also destroy the beasts, birds and all creeping things? Mankind corrupts everything he comes in contact with. Thus, all of what God created was as evil as man, for example; domestic pets are better protected beyond human babies who are aborted (murdered).

Devotional: Without diving to deeply into the subject of SIN (I will leave that up to your studies) God will put an end to sin, actually, He already has, see John 1:29. Yet, evil is ‘still at large’, looking into the book of Daniel we read in chapter nine the following statement of the Angel Gabriel. Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city; to finish the transgression, to make and end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity and bring in everlasting righteousness. Excerpt from verse 24.

Gabriel explains to Daniel how all of this will develop over the remaining history of time, Messiah will come as the servant sacrifice of God to put an end to sin, yet evil will continue. If one chooses to read Daniel 9:24-27 they will see and understand that from 538BC, that the prophesy of Daniel via the conversation he had with the Angel Gabriel is being fulfilled on time and on schedule. As evil increases in the heart of mankind, God will (and soon) remove His protection from the world, as His church and The Holy Spirit will depart. Evil like no one has ever witnessed will prevail over the following seven years. Then as God did in Genesis 6, He (Messiah) who is the Lamb of God, will come again, but then as the KING of kings, sin will be crushed again, but not done away with just yet.

Messiah will be King over the entire world, He will govern the world for a millennium (1000 years), but the evil in mankind will still cause men and women to sin. At the end of this time in history, God (Messiah) will put an end to ‘the transgression’ (Satan) and make ‘reconciliation for iniquity’(man). He will also bring in ‘everlasting Righteousness’ (The children of God) this will be the eternal state of God and His Children created in His Image and Likeness (Blood Sacrifice). See Revelation 21 and 22.

A Weekly Devotional – Reflections – Personal Meditation

A Weekly Devotional – Reflections – Personal Meditation

Comment: Ever notice that when we are in church or involved with some Christian event that we all act like ‘children of God’! I am reminded of Romans 13:14, but OUT of it’s intended purpose; “But put on the LORD Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. In our heart where we house our mind; we have various rooms in our mind and as a house, most rooms have closets, do they not? “Oh! In an hour I must be off to church, so I run to the closet of my mind and “put on the LORD Jesus”, but just for an hour since I do not want Him to get dirty, so when I return home; that is the comfort of my heart, I return to those comfort clothes I have draped over the chair and hang Jesus back in the closet! Do you get the point? Of course, the above seems a bit absurd and it is, but if Christ were a garment, this is exactly what many do.

Devotional: Whatever you set your mind on is what you are doing at this very moment! Notice again what the apostle Paul says in Colossians 3:1-3 – If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 

Christ/Messiah is coming again, He may come, even today and if He does, would our spiritual armor of Ephesians 6:10-18 be hanging in the closet along with Romans 13:14. We live in EVIL days and if you are a child of God, you know the days are evil. Going back to the passage in Romans 13, let is consider the context of verses 11-14. As said earlier, we live in evil days and it is high time “high noon” if you will! What are we doing if we are still asleep? 

With salvation from this perverse and crooked world being so close, why is it we fail to cast off the works of darkness and why is it that we put on the armor of light when the occasion is convenient. God's children ought not be found drunk and disorderly, lustful or even full of envy, and what are we doing striving emotionally with friends and neighbors?

When Christ returns for His Church, will you be ready, or will you be like the five foolish virgins of Matthew 25:1-13. Hey! The choice is yours, is it not?All of us can do better spiritually so lets get up and get moving.