MARCH 14 The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

March 14 / Day 15

365 Prayers to JESUS

Jesus, Praise You for the Eternal Loving God You are! Lord help us to see how very short a time we have on earth and keep us from wasting these precious few opportunities to draw close to the Creator and author of Forever! It is hard to grasp the concept of eternity because we are so bound by “time” and cannot imagine life without time, but time itself is bounded by a “beginning” which in turn shall have its “ending”. We think in terms of birth and death as markers in our earthly existence but help us O Lord to see in terms of the Eternal Life which has no end! Lord, there is so much more to life and living than death and the grave, teach us about your unending love and abundant life eternal.

The Jesus Questions

JQ#3 - As I study the context of these “Jesus Questions” each morning I am impressed by the great lengths Jesus goes through to teach us lessons and then this morning I was further impressed by the subjects that He is teaching. All lessons start out by questioning us about our physical perception of the world and then Christ guides us to a spiritual perception of our life eternal. Far to many of us, and I certainly count myself as the leading contender for the prize of being a slave to my earthly viewpoint, cannot make the transition from the physical to the spiritual without a special push from the Master and that “push” is in the form of engaging our mental capacities by asking questions about our physical viewpoint. In this section of Matthew 6:24-33 where Jesus is teaching us about “worry”, we should note the obvious that “worry” is a spiritual entity and “food” and “clothing” are physical entities. Jesus weaves these together in a special question in Matthew 6:25b that teaches us the deeper truth that we view our lives simply as the physical entities we have been programmed by our society to pay attention to like “food” and “clothing” but from a spiritual viewpoint “life” IS “more that food” and the “body” IS “more than clothing” — but the only way we can get to that reality is that we have to see our “life” and “body” from a “spiritual” viewpoint. As long as we stay enslaved to the “physical” world we are bound by “death” but when we transition into the freedom from time afforded the believer, we will see that there is “more” to life and that “more” is not bounded by time but we enter the “eternal life” given to us as a “Gift” as an expression of God’s Love: “For God so loved the world that He gave” … and when we accept the gift of “…His only begotten Son…” by exercising our spiritual muscle then “…whosoever believes (belief is totally spiritual) in [JESUS] shall not perish (perish is totally physical) but have eternal life.” (John 3:16) So it is through “belief” which is “spiritual” that frees us from the “physical” — Jesus is teaching us how to be free from our physical bonds but we must look at our life through the “spiritual lens” Jesus is pointing us to — “Therefore, if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” (John 8:36) When reading this passage in Matthew on “worry” it helps to develop your answer by reading John 8:30-36 and John 3:3-6 and you will see Jesus is always teaching freedom from the physical world and the path always leads through the “Spiritual Door” that is JESUS!