APRIL 18 THE JESUS QUESTIONS
(Day 5) Summary Review of JESUS Questions
JQ#01-01—JQ#13-07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, it is beyond my understanding “why” You and the Father would
“Love” a world of lost sinners such as myself.
Lord Jesus, I praise You for this “knowing” that the Holy Spirit has
imparted to me that says to me that for my “spiritual” health I do not need
to understand or explain “why” You “Love” me but it is enough
to KNOW WITH CERTAINTY that You “Love” me and that You demonstrated
that “Love” by Your death on the Cross,
the Father has also demonstrated His “Love” towards us
in that He RESURRECTED You from the grave!
Lord Jesus, my prayer is simply to let my life reflect that Supreme Love
with which
I KNOW THAT I AM LOVED BY GOD!
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus so far in His first 2 Lessons has taught us to be aware of our
personal responsibility to our own eternity and to the Kingdom. Jesus then
started us on our “Spiritual Journey” with the Primary Tool to
accomplish Kingdom Work and that necessary tool to get to
God’s Kingdom is God’s GPS system which is the “LOVE OF GOD”.
Lesson 3 JQ#3 “What good is worry or ‘who cares’?” Matthew 6:25-34
Jesus then asked His 3rd Question to get us to fully appreciate the first two
Lessons when He bluntly asks us “What good is worry?” and to help us
keep the proper spiritual perspective on “worry” Jesus illustrates the best
of all reasons not to worry — Jesus tells us that
everything we could possibly worry about has already been
or will be taken care of by “The Father” in HEAVEN
that knows our every EARTHLY need! Jesus is illustrating another
“Truth of God”
by showing us that if we will take the “negative” which is “worry” and learn
that we can exercise our “spiritual” muscle and make a “positive” out of
the “negative worrying” by turning our “worry” into
“Trusting God”
then we are well on our way to
understanding “Faith”
and how to “grow” our Faith
by Trusting in God!
This very important Spiritual Lesson of “Trusting God” is the perfect companion
to “Love” — and with our knowing that we have a personal responsibility
to the Kingdom — and that
God will provide everything we need
to complete our “Journey to Eternity” with Him
— and that our obligation is to
“Love” as the Father “Loves”
and to “Trust God” that He will provide
our every need — then we will not “worry”
but move expectantly
towards our Eternity as we walk by “Faith” —
“Faith” IS NOT in ourselves but
“Faith IS in our Heavenly Father”
and His desire for our good!
This journey of “Faith” becomes our life as we worry less and less as we
see day by day that God has provided for the lilies of the field and clothes
them so beautifully! We grow our “Faith in God” as we recognize that if
God does such amazing things with birds and flowers
and the sun, moon, and stars that it becomes obvious to even the most
casual observer that God cares so much more about us!!!
God confirmed His Love for us
because He made us in His image!
So we can answer with confidence that we do not need to “worry”
because “God cares” about our lives! Jesus ends the Lesson with another
beautiful summary of this Lesson on the
Truth of God’s Love
with a simple but powerful thought:
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,
and all these things shall be added to you.”
(Matthew 6:33)
I know myself that when I realized that if God is going to add “all these things”
to me simply because He desires to impart His Righteousness on me
so that I can enter His Kingdom, then I am no longer
“worried” about “all these things” and my “Faith in God”
grows proportional to how successful I am in turning “worry about the world”
into “trusting in the Goodness of God”!
If you just stop and think about it in your own life,
has the world or God provided for your daily bread?
***After all, if we know bread comes from a seed,
then isn’t the One who imparts life to the seed
more important to our daily bread
than the one who gathers the grain?***
