A Daily Devotional – Personal Faith – Personal Meditation
Comment: Many people of good intention, never
end up achieving their goals. We do not need to add much more to that statement,
do we? Since all of us feel good about ourselves even though many of our goals
are never met. I am equally sure that ‘religion’ like that of the Sanhedrin in
the days of the ministry of Jesus felt that their goals to preach, teach and
observe their way to the kingdom of God was right. They defended their faith of
‘works’ even to the crucifixion of their Messiah, the LORD Jesus. Now we can
say that this is all God’s Plan, and it most assuredly is, yet this reveals the
evil results of man using his fleshly mind to seek to understand the way of
God, rather than coming to God, ‘God’s way’; By God’s way, is by Faith in God,
and not by the works of man.
Devotional: Our
discussion in this series of devotionals is ‘personal faith in the Son of God’
that is nothing added and nothing taken away. This morning the following verses
of scripture will reveal (that is if we care to meditate on these) will reveal
that the LORD Jesus in His ministry to the Jewish leaders of His day was
focused faith in God alone and not on achievement of human goals to gain the kingdom of God by human works.
John 8:13-20 – The
Pharisees therefore said to Him, "You bear witness of Yourself; Your
witness is not true." Jesus answered and said to them, "Even if I bear witness of Myself, My witness is true,
for I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I
come from and where I am going. You judge according to the flesh; I judge no
one. And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I am
with the Father who sent Me. It is also written in your law that the testimony
of two men is true. I am One who bears witness of Myself, and the Father who
sent Me bears witness of Me." Then they said to Him, "Where is Your
Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither Me nor My Father. If you
had known Me, you would have known My Father also." These words
Jesus spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no one laid hands
on Him, for His hour had not yet come.
Their judgment
and evaluation of Jesus was from the flesh; that is from the natural mind. The judgment
of the LORD Jesus was from the Spirit of God (see John 4:24), one could say
that the Jews were already at a disadvantage since the Spirit of God had not
yet been given (John 7:39) but this would be a false assumption; Nicodemus and
the woman at the well understood that the Messiah is Jesus, as well as many
others. Blindness to the truth always comes by a lack of faith in God, while
expressing faith in one’s own works.
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