MARCH 29 The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

March 29 / Day 30

365 Prayers to JESUS

Jesus, All Glory and All Honor ARE Yours and Yours alone, for the best of men with the greatest of intentions Always fall short of Your Glory. Yes, every knee will bow, and every tongue confess that You are the LORD of lords and the KING of all kings. There is no one like JESUS, the Only Begotten of our Father in Heaven, who from the beginning of time had an appointment with suffering and death and this Jesus gave up His Glory in Heaven, descended to earth, became flesh, met His Divine appointment at the exact moment in history to Rise Victorious the Third Day, never will another time in all eternity match the Matchless Hour of Salvation for all of mankind as Jesus bore our iniquities on His Shoulders and died for our sins, the Perfect Sacrificial Offering of God the Father!

The Jesus Questions

JQ#7 - Yesterday the Spirit led my writing to tie JQ#7 “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” (Matthew 8:26a) into lessons from Resurrection Sunday and today that will be expanded to give some specific examples that teach us that God has done so many things to reveal His Greatness to us yet we overlook the obvious.  After all He has done we still stand fearful of the world. Every chapter and verse in all 66 books of our Bible teach us a lesson on who God is and what is His intention for the world. Mankind however, from the Beginning has been deceived by the world and every one has had to face the reality that God proves Himself to be a Loving-Forgiving God that Demands Justice, and is Jealous of His Glory. But each and everyone of us that faces that reality is given the most valuable gift anyone could receive and that is we are all free to choose God and Trust Him or if we choose not to believe God is who He says He is then we are free to choose our own god and must accept the responsibility of taking care of ourselves. Freedom of choice is the single greatest “test of faith” we will face!  Let me give the most obvious reason we should believe that God is who He says He is.  Our “little faith” is related back to Resurrection Sunday but has roots all the way back to Genesis 1:1-5. The first concept we can derive of God is from Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven’s and the earth.” The first characteristic of God is that He is the Creator of everything that we have consciousness of, both in “heaven” and on the earth”. What is overlooked about this passage is the obvious that if God “created” every thing “in the beginning” of all things, then God Himself was before the “beginning” and is Himself Uncreated. This is referred to by scholars as the “self-existence” of God.  A. W. Tozer wrote in his book “The Knowledge of the Holy” that “Aside from God, noting is self-caused.” (Chapter 5 “The Self-Existence of God” pg.25) Only the Creator of all things can establish the laws governing all things and has control of all things and therefore we should recognize the obvious that He who controls all things is “in control of all things”!!! It is a simple concept but JQ#7 exposes that fact that we overlook the obvious as we read “…Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm.” (Matthew 8:26b). The significance of the fact that the disciples were in a storm yet Jesus Himself was asleep, and when He awoke He immediately reprimanded them by asking first what they were “fearing”? After rebuking them about their “fear” of the world’s circumstances and their lack of “faith”,  Jesus turned and “rebuked the winds and the sea”!!! Only the Creator of all things controls all things and can take a “”storm and produce “a great calm”. Think about Resurrection Sunday and then answer the question: “Why are you fearful?”