A Daily Devotional – Personal Faith – Personal Meditation (16)

A Daily Devotional – Personal Faith – Personal Meditation

Comment: Rejecting authority has always been the way of life for most people. There are only a small remnant of people within the people groups throughout the world that seek to abide under the authority of which they live. Sadly, we often seek to be our own authority over living and we qualify what we do as ‘right or okay’ because the results look good, it also feels good and I am proud, and that is good. Think about this, as it is the first sin ever committed; see Genesis 3:6 and 1 John 2:15-17. This sin is a root of bitterness that springs up in the lives of most people and causes many to be defiled.

Devotional: Religious leaders (these are not faithful servants of God) are very protective of what they have. They hear the comments of the people “Can this be the Christ?” Isn’t He the One whom the leaders are seeking to kill?” “The rulers know He is the Christ, don’t they?” And of course, the crowd also has some doubtful thoughts too! “We know where this man is from, and when Messiah does come, no one knows where He comes from1”

Do we not see this very thing today? Religions deny that Jesus Christ/Messiah has come in the flesh. These according to scripture are the many ‘antichrists’ that are in the religious world today. They deny the Father and the Son, they reject the conviction of God the Holy Spirit and guess what! GOD IS THE WITNESS to this. God is witness to the death, burial and resurrection of His Beloved Son. He is witness to the physical birth as well as the physical death of His Son, and it the Spirit of God who reveals this Truth to mankind; see 1 John 5:6.

The great day of the feast of Tabernacles, which is the last day of the feast, Jesus offers a refreshing drink for the souls of all who will hear Him. “If anyone thirsts, let him (or her) come to ME and drink. He who believes in ME, as the SCRIPTURE has said, out of his (or her) heart will flow rivers of living water.” Today, if you will hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, do not hardened your heart by the deftness of your ears, or the lust of the eyes, and the lust of the flesh or the pride of life. Accept the message of God the Holy Spirit. Jesus the Christ/Messiah.