The Devotional –The entry

The Devotional –The entry

Comment: The perfect storm, the snowball rolling down hill, the out of control locomotive and the bullet you do not hear coming. All of these dangers are NOTHING compared to the pending JUDGMENT on our nation as we march blindly into IDOLATRY and IMMORALITY. Ignoring this is not BLISS, we are distracted though. We are distracted by corrupt politics and liberal laws that by evil ingenuity circumvent the Holiness and Righteousness of living in TRUTH, the Truth provided by our Creator GOD. Nationally we are laughing and cursing at God as we watch officials within local communities’ fine and penalize their constituents who seek to live by FAITH in God’s Holy and Righteous Precepts. God calls His children to face this problem, to heed His promise or suffer the consequence, one such warning and promise is found the Book of Proverbs. Proverbs 1:20-33.

Devotional: John 12 – Is a turning point in the Life and Ministry of our LORD, He is now focusing on His death, within the week ahead He will prepare His disciples for His departure, yet they will not understand. He will explain many spiritual truths to them but and because they do not have the Spirit of God in them at this point they will not fully understand the WAY and the TRUTH.

The Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, John 12:12-19 marks one full week before the LORD Jesus is crucified for the SIN of the world. We are all sinners, even from birth; even as David, king of Israel said when he was confessing his sin to God. Psalm 51:5 – “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me”. The sin of man is passed from generation to generation through the loins of the father, so all are sinners in the eyes of the LORD.

For us to think about this is not at all confusing is it? “If we say we have not sinned we make Him a liar and His Word is not in us”. Those words are found in the First epistle of John and are simple and readily understood, but not readily believed. To believe God we must believe that He is God and that by believing we may have LIFE in His Name. Not the life that Jesus gave up for our sins, but the eternal LIFE He alone can provides through His death and resurrection. NOTICE!

Creator GOD is glorified by those who come to FAITH in Jesus Christ, notice John 12:27-32, “and I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.” Praise the LORD, yes the LORD was lifted up and YOU and I know this. 

Knowing and believing are separated by FAITH, if you fail to have a personal faith in God’s Son than you fail the test of God’s report and promise. John 12:37-41. In the Light of God’s Word, we live in TRUTH, and in the darkness of this world we die in the LIE, for in this lie we love the praises of men more than the praise of God.