A Daily Devotional – Meditate on God’s Absolutes
Comment: One thing that is very noticeable in
our land these days is that we have lost our way to the absolute ‘perfect laws’,
the ‘sure testimonies’, the ‘right statutes’, the ‘pure commandments’, and the ‘enduring
fear of the LORD’. These judgments of God are TRUE; altogether these are
RIGHTEOUS and TRUSTWORTHY! Many too have laid aside the TRUTH that GOD, the
only GOD is the Creator of the heavens and the earth.
Devotional: All of Psalm 19:1-14 is a declaration
of the absolute character and existence of God. Creation and God’s judgments
Glorify God every second of TIME. The traditional, social and religious
promises of our nation are admirable, but these are at the very best ‘temporal’,
‘relative’, ‘untested’ and finally, ‘untrustworthy’. Why might that be?
Do you watch the news? “For out of the HEART proceed
evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnesses,
blasphemies. These are the things that defile a man.” Matthew 15:19-20a, the context is a
conversation of the LORD Jesus with the scribes and Pharisees regarding ‘cleanliness’.
The focus of righteousness ascribed by these men was on the outward behavior of
man, all of which is temporal.
If you read the
context of Matthew 15:1-20 you will clearly see that Jesus points out that the traditions
of these religious people have transgressed (over stepped the boundaries) of
God’s commandments. Can it be that in our day we in churches all across this
land are like the synagogues of Jesus’s day? We emotionally draw near to God
with our mouth, but our hearts are far from Him. Vainly we worship God, we have
become students of the doctrines and commandments of men.
There is much to
learn from the Word of the Living God… “Be diligent to present yourself
approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
word of TRUTH.” Why? Simply because there are no absolutes in many churches
across this land. 2 Timothy 2:14-26.
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