MAY 30 THE JESUS QUESTIONS
JQ#18 “But who do you say that I am?”
(Matthew 16:15)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, You Lord are to be greatly praised for Your Love and the fact
that in Your example of “Loving” us when we were truly “unlovable”
we can experience “first hand” the Matchless Love of God!
Because You first loved us even though there was nothing in us to Love,
we know that Your Love comes with NO CONDITIONS
and that You LOVE because it is Your Choice to Love —
not because of who we are,
but simply because You Love
because You freely choose to Love
because of who You are!!!
We cannot know or explain “Why” You chose to Love,
but our limited understanding does not diminish in any way
the FACT that You Love us.
Lord we pray that because You Loved us when we were unlovable
that we in turn will Love Others Unconditionally because that is a “Choice”
that we will make to Honor Your “Choice” to Love us!
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus is Teaching us in JQ#18 by asking us to take
“Spiritual Inventory”
of what we
“believe”
about Him and who we actually believe Jesus to be?
Who we see Jesus as and what we
“believe”
ABOUT HIS PURPOSE is multifaceted in that we must examine
our answer for the
“Truth of God”
contained within the Teachings of Jesus!
As we answer from the
“Truth of God”
perspective, we must also observe the other side of our answer
about Who we believe Jesus is
which will lead us to examine how our
“belief” in God
lines up with the
“Truth of God”
about His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ.
God has already revealed Himself to us
through His Word — the Holy Bible —
which is the entire story of Jesus
from His Hand in the Creation,
to the story of Jesus the Only Begotten Son
being provided by the Father as the Sacrificial Lamb of God,
and it takes us to the end of time itself
when Jesus returns to gather His Bride
and the Father in heaven throws a Great Wedding Feast
as we enter into eternity with our Redeemer.
This Most Important Question and then our examination of our
“belief”
about God must be viewed through the
“eyes of God Himself”
for God is Truth.
When we “understand” that
Jesus was sent by God, that Jesus is God’s Very Son,
and that Jesus has “pleased the Father”
by being obedient to the Father’s will
even unto a cruel death,
then we will be able to start aligning what
we “believe in our hearts about God” with the
“Truth of God”
and that is when we can learn the Lesson Jesus
is going to Teach,
and Teach, and Teach!
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Jesus asks us personally to look deep into our soul
and then look Him in the eye and tell Him face-to-face
“who” we believe Him to be.
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When we look at our “belief about God” as compared to the
Unchanging and Eternal Truth of God,
we will realize the Truth of God that
(Truth of God #1)
GOD IS ETERNALLY UNCHANGING
and
(Truth of God #2)
that our“belief” of who Jesus is
has no impact on the Unchanging Truth of Who Jesus IS —
our belief changes us — not Jesus!!!!
So the Lesson Jesus is really getting at is this Question,
“Do we know the Truth of God as God has revealed it
and will reveal to each individual seeking to know God?”
We must further consider the impact of our “belief” on our eternity for
our ultimate eternity is based solely on how well
that which we “believe” about God and Jesus
actually “lines up” with the revealed
“Truth of God”
——— the best place to learn that Truth of God
is from the Word of God
which can be found in His Bible,
His Son, and His Holy Spirit Who is sent
to “Teach” us the Truth of God.
Remember, our Belief in God is important
but our “belief” has no impact on the
Self Existing God and His Truth
so we must learn that
God is the Unchanging Truth
on which our eternity is based
and therefore the real question is:
“What do I know of what God says Himself to be
and who does God say Jesus is
and why did Jesus, God’s Only Begotten Son
have to be obedient to the Father’s Will???
