MARCH 19 The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

March 19 / Day 20

365 Prayers to JESUS

Jesus, Lord this is my prayer, of all the things I could be doing and all the places I could go, I have chosen to start each and every day by writing the Name above all names — JESUS! Lord, over the years as I have tried virtually every thing under the sun, nothing has ever given me peace nor made me a better person than calling on  the Name of Jesus! There is Truth and there is Hope, and there is the Assurance that what God has said He Will Do, He Does — Lord, Your Word is Holy and Your Way is the True Path of Righteousness so I pray for Your Guidance and Your Presence to lead me forward. 

The Jesus Questions

JQ#4 - We have been several days on the command Jesus gave us to “Judge not…” (Matthew 7:1a) and there is a gnawing in my spirit that is linking this command to today’s new age definition of “tolerance”. Like so many other words used to control our thought process by whoever it is that thinks that the average man cannot think for himself, the new meaning of “tolerance” does not carry the same meaning that I grew up with. These verses from the bible are being used against Christians in this new age of “tolerance” as we are accused of being “intolerant” if we don’t accept people that have made different life choices than we as Christians have made under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and living a life as commanded by God Himself. When we look at “tolerating” people, the new age definition has rewritten the definition to mean that we completely accept them without passing “judgment” on them and have been led to believe that “total acceptance” is the “right thing” to do. The problem I have with that thinking is that if we “tolerate” the ungodly as defined by God Himself then we are putting man’s definition of “tolerance” above the Godly Moral Standard and effectively have made “Tolerance” our new god as we substitute God’s Moral Standard with “total acceptance” of every type of behavior in the name of “new age tolerance”! We have allowed our society to climb out on a very slippery slope by “accepting” without question the new definitions that are being imposed on our social philosophy. Two instances: (1) Abortion and (2) Same sex marriages. When did we as a society drop our Moral Standards based on God’s word and allow a government appointed representative body of 9 people (all lawyers) to decide what is “morally acceptable” and declare the behavior “legal”? We as a society have established a new god in the government and we are letting them use whatever political standard they chose to establish what is morally acceptable?! “The LORD is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth…” (Isaiah 40:28) and yet the government in their thirst for “power and control” will soon be passing legislation to outlaw the use of God’s Moral Standard and new laws will be written to support this new moral standard based on this new definition of “Tolerance”! They will use the outlawed Bible to justify their new law because Jesus said “Judge not…” !!! This discourse on letting the world establish the Moral Standard is in my opinion the result of Christians “… giving what is holy to the dogs…” and “casting our pearls before swine” because I see the future of Christians (if we stay on this slippery slope) “trampled under [the government’s feet]” as they “turn and tear [Christians] to pieces…” (Matthew 7:6) Any comments?