A Daily Devotional – Personal Faith – Personal Meditation
Comment: Psalm 119:73 – Your Hands have made
me and fashioned me; Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.
Proverbs 16:2 – All the ways of a man are pure in his OWN eyes, but the LORD
weighs the spirits. The writer of Psalm 119 prepares his heart to make choices
that are directed by the answers that come from the tongue of the LORD. As a
result, when he commits (lit. rolls) his thoughts to the LORD, his thoughts
will be established. He will gain understanding and learn the commandments of
God. Knowing these truths is good, but living in this truth is even better. In our
heart we plan the direction of our day, and by the instruction of Truth, God is
able to direct our steps, Proverbs 16:9.
Devotional: Chapters
5 and 6 of the Gospel of John are not understood by anyone who lives in the
flesh. Failure to worship God in the Spirit (John 4:24) will cause many to
stumble. Jesus is God, not because He says so; He is God because He said to the
lame man at Bethesda “Do you want to be made well?”
and “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And finally,
“See, you have been made well, sin no more, lest a
worse thing come upon you.”
The event is about the Father and the Son being ONE,
this angered the Jews, but it also angers everyone who refuses to believe God
and allow Him to guide us daily. The same and only God who moved the writer of
Psalm 119 and Solomon the writer of Proverbs; said, “This is my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17; 17:5 and 2 Peter 1 :17.
In the discourse of Jesus in John 5 we learn that we
are to honor the Father and the Son as equal, verses 16-23. We are to
understand that “everlasting life and judgment” are understood and believed through
the Son of God, verses 24-30. We also learn that the witness of God for His Son is revealed;
not only by the Son Himself, but by the Holy Spirit in Him, by the Father who
loves Him, by Moses who wrote about Him and by the words of Christ Himself, verses 31-47.
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