MARCH 16 The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

March 16 / Day 17

365 Prayers to JESUS

Jesus, Praise, Glory, Honor to the King of kings, the Lord of lords, and the Only Name by which man can be freed of his natural sin. Lord Jesus, every time we see a cross, our first thought should be of the Great Sacrifice of the Divine, and the second thought should be that the cross is empty!! The empty cross should remind us that God loved us enough to put His Only Begotten Son on the cross but also that God loved His Son so much that He did not leave Him there! The empty cross and the empty grave express the full measure of God’s Love for us and the Resurrection is God’s Eternal Covenant with sinful man. Praise you Lord, for “It is Finished!” (John 19-30)

The Jesus Questions

JQ#3 & JQ#4 - Yesterday we finished the section on “worry” (JQ#3 - Matthew 6:24-34) and my answer to the (8) Jesus Questions in the section was to accept the the fact that my depending on myself is useless and if I trust Jesus and follow His commands then I will quit worrying about useless things of this world and use all my mental facilities to grow my “Faith in Jesus” and accept what God has in store for me. The Holy Spirit started me out on my Journey to God 15 years ago with Matthew 6:33 “Seek first the kingdom of God…” and whenever I feel I am being deprived of some worldly possession, the Holy Spirit uses Matthew 6:33 to turn my focus away from self and back on the Savior and my physical worries melt away! There simply is no room in “Faith” for “worry” as the foundation of “Faith” is built upon “Trust” — “Worry” is simply wrong in the spiritual realm because “Worry” is constructed wholly on “Distrust” and there are NO reasons not to “Trust God” , therefore we accept with full faith what Jesus commands us “Therefore do NOT WORRY about tomorrow…” (Matthew 6:34) The great thing about the teachings of Jesus is that He always takes some worldly action or attitude and shows us how to put it into the “proper perspective” and use the new perspective to grow in Jesus Himself! Jesus is the original author of “Do as I do” because everything He taught He lived, and just like at the Last Supper when Jesus “Broke the Bread” Jesus was being our example — “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us…” (John 1:14) If Jesus had not lived the Perfect Sinless life there would have been plenty of people that would have pointed out to everyone that this Man claiming to “be God” was just a sinner like everyone else and one sin would have disqualified Him from being God and no way could Jesus have commanded us “Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48) This command can also be used as a “prophecy”  as Jesus teaches us that if we will become like Him, then we will be made perfect like Him, “just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” The point in learning from Jesus is to be like Jesus and to abide forever with Jesus and our “Father in heaven” where finally after all our earthly mistakes we will at last achieve our goal and win the heavenly prize of eternal life. Tomorrow we will start a very important section on “judging” as we look to answer JQ#4 in Matthew 7:3. A section that I call “I surgery” so study Matthew 7:1-6 and we will operate on ourselves tomorrow.