A Daily Devotional – Meditation and Study (2)

A Daily Devotional – Meditation and Study (2)

Comment: Some time ago when I was working I would listen to a Christian radio station on the way to work. I know may who do that even today and encourage this form of biblical instruction, yet we need to be careful to what we listen to. Anyway getting back to this person, he always closed his program with the words “MANY VOICES, THERE IS BUT ONE MESSAGE!” This is good advice because in today’s world, while we still have many voices; the ‘ONE MESSAGE’ has become diluted.

Devotional: As the LORD Jesus bore your sin and mine, He cried out to His Father and to the Spirit; “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me? Matthew 27:45-56 is that portion of scripture that communicates the death of our Savior, Matthew explains that from the sixth to the ninth hour was filled with darkness all over the land. Imagine if you will, the God/Man, the Christ/Messiah, Thee God/Thee Son, is cut off from the Creator and the created during this time. 

This is total isolation, words cannot describe these three hours of time; I believe that even the scourging and the nailing to the cross was more tolerable than these three hours of being isolated from God and man as He willingly paid the debt we ALL owed.

The many voices of today, preach messages of ‘Love God’, ‘Worship God’, ‘Work for God’ and so on. Yes, it is true we ought to love, worship and serve our LORD and so on. Yet preachers purposely dilute the gospel. The gospel should not be liberalized with prosperity or popularity, nor should the gospel be restricted with legalistic works of ‘do’s and don’ts’ Jesus did not suffer such unspoken suffering for anyone of us to have the AUDACITY to disregard GRACE by claiming gospels that are void of PERSONAL FAITH.

There are even churches by the score where you will not hear the gospel preached at all and here is the RUB! The church represents Christ on earth, we are ambassadors (representatives) of Christ on earth as though He is pleading through us; imploring those around us to be reconcile to God, for He (God) made Him (the Son) who knew NO SIN, to BE SIN for us. That is that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (Christ), 2 Corinthians 5:12-21.

The gospel of God in Christ is a mystery to those perishing in darkness, pray and ask God to remove false teaching that we might preach clearly. Often I feel that we are like the apostle Paul these days, Ephesians 6:19-20. While he was physically chained in a prison, many of us are chained to confusing voices and messages that keep the world separated from God.