The
Devotional
Comment: We
have an Awesome God and a Wonderful Savior, in the Prophet Isaiah’s book; Jesus
is identified as Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father and the
Prince of Peace. Without faith in the Creator, that is without the smallest
thought that God does exist it is impossible for anyone to wrap their thoughts
around such an Awesome Person as the God/man, Jesus Christ. For sixty years,
that is; for the last three generations of people in the United States of America,
the teaching of secular humanism is the main course of instruction seeking to program
the minds of children and young adults with the ideologies of evolution. To a
very large number of citizens today, evolution has taken the front row seat for
human existence and God is disregarded as Creator. Thus the Creator God is
believed as nonsense and fairytales. Even Christendom has compromised the Firm
Foundation of the Creator by agreeing with evolutional practices which I call
the “Balaam factor”. Numbers 22 through 25, 2 Peter 2:15, Jude 1:11 and Revelation
2:14. The Church of Jesus Christ today has lost sight of Thee Awesome God and
Wonderful Savior whose Name is Mighty God.
Challenge:
There was a witness whose name is John, he came into the
world for one purpose. He came to prepare the Way of Jesus Christ who would
come after him, but who was before him, the Mighty God. John the Baptizer came specifically
to proclaim the arrival of the Son of God, the Mighty God on earth. Matthew
3:1-3. Here in the Gospel of John 1:6-19, John the Baptizer makes it clear to
those who question him that he is not the Christ. This man John was simply sent
to bear witness of Christ, whom John the apostle proclaimed to be the True
Light which gives Light to every man.
So just what is this statement “True Light” we read in John
1:9, what does it mean? We spoke briefly last week about light and darkness,
but just a few more thoughts here. Whether we consider it or not “darkness” is
the secular wisdom of the world around us. This wisdom is capable of doing good
and doing evil, which simply is a mixture of spiritual darkness. The resources
of this wisdom apart from God is based on human reason and human sight coupled
with demonic powers, its interest in the supernatural is to maintain an open disrespect
for God.
However when the people of God speak, they do not speak from
the natural and demonic resources controlled by Satan and man. These attributes
of darkness have rejected the source of understanding the things of God. What source
is this, it is Faith. The world around us has no faith in or of itself, so how
could the wisdom of the world be any factor in seeking to understand that
Jesus, the Christ is also the Word of God, the Counselor of the Mighty God. The
Word, that is the Counselor of God became flesh, He walked about the earth for
33 to 37 years. He is the Light of Faith or better said, the testimony of the
True Light provided by God and revealed to John the Baptizer and witness of the
Lamb of God.
Faith in God is the first step in changing one’s mind about
the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. We do not know Jesus by
sight or reason, we do not understand anything about the Lamb of God, and we do
not understand that the sin of the world is darkness to the Light. Darkness
does comprehend what it cannot see, thus if one is to see Jesus; he or she must
be willing to come to the “True Light” the Counselor, the Mighty God the One
and only Awesome God who willingly reveals Light, revealing “faith” to everyone
who is born into this world that Jesus Christ the Son of God is also the Lamb
of God who takes away the sin of the world.
No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son (God)
who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. John 1:18.
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