A Daily Devotional – Personal Faith – Personal Meditation (13)

A Daily Devotional – Personal Faith – Personal Meditation

Comment: Instruction for living? Who is interested in such a thing as that? We seek to be instructed in on how to be professionals or technicians; we even seek to be taught to drive or operate machinery. We become experts in various fields of management, politics and religion. Yet, we fail continually to be instructed in the skill of living with one another in mercy or justice. Daily we are conflicted with striving, quarreling, brawling or allowing someone to draw us away from that which is right. Proverbs 20:3 – It is honorable for a man to STOP striving, SINCE any fool can start a quarrel. All men and women in any field or profession can be at the top of their profession or career, but they are fools if they cannot control their behavior or personal thoughts and tongue.

Devotional: John 7:25-36 – We tend to look at the people in the events of Christs’ ministry on earth as unlearned people. In fact, if you have seen any of the movies that center on the ministry of The Christ on earth, they are portrayed as uneducated people, beggars or thieves who have lost their way. Our mindset is; educated or professional people would never be responsible for the crucifixion or brutal treatment of God’s Son. To this I say… Bah! Humbug!

Did the leaders of the Jewish religion professionally know, that the Messiah was coming? Well the answer is simple. Men like Philip and Nathaniel were looking for the Messiah, see John 1:43-51 as were two of the disciples of John the baptizer; see John 1:35-42, one of these was Andrew, Peter’s brother. Nicodemus, in John 3:1-21 was knowledgeable that Messiah was coming as was the woman at the well in John 4. All of these people were responsible professionals of one trade or another, but their behavior was foolish, as they were foolish and sinful, just as we are today.

So it is with every person who encounters the living God. God, who is interested in how good you are at what you do in life as a career; but is  more INTERESTED in how our SOUL responds to loving Him with our whole heart, mind and soul and loving our neighbor as ourselves (Matthew 5:43 and Romans 13:9). To have a feast, such as the Feast of Tabernacles requires professionals of all types, from those who organize to those who protect and clean up, even the leaders of the feast who are the religious Jews. 

Yes, The Messiah/Jesus attended the feast, but on the last day of the feast he stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Holy Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given… See John 7:37-39.