MARCH 31 The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

March 31 / Day 32

365 Prayers to JESUS

Jesus, Lord I come before You this morning renewed and refreshed in Your Spirit and I praise You for Your Love. Lord, we deserve punishment but You Lord bore our sins and iniquities on the Cross which was the only Acceptable Sacrifice. Through Your Great Sacrifice that our sins have been paid in full. Lord I know that I am not worthy of Your Love and that my unworthiness has been substituted by Your Righteousness and in the Father’s eyes I am an heir to the Kingdom because of what was accomplished on Resurrection Sunday — I pray that every day I wake and rise to face the world that I will keep full in my mind that You ARE RISEN victorious over the world and will walk with me every step of my journey! 

The Jesus Questions

JQ#7 - Our “faith” cannot  become “sight” unless we understand that without the “Light” of Jesus we will remain blind. When Jesus asks a question, He is challenging us to use our God-given intellect to open our spiritual eyes and exercise our “trust” in His Infinite Knowledge. In JQ#7 Jesus ties together two terms “fearful” and “faith” and His use of these two terms in such close proximity should get our attention. When I stopped and re-read the question trying to see the “obvious” I was rewarded by seeing that Jesus asked the “question” and He gave the “answer” while asking the question. The “obvious” that came to me was to look at JQ#7 in two parts but keeping them tied together like this: Part A (the question) “Why are you fearful” and Part B (the answer) “O you of little faith”. The question is about being “fearful” and He answers His question by directing our attention to our “faith”. Jesus puts the question and the answer together because He does not want us to over-think ourselves and therefore He makes it clear that we must grow our “faith” to reduce our “fear”. There is no other way to grow our “faith” without “Trusting God” and if we do not see God’s world with our “spiritual” eyes we will not Trust God. I believe it is of great importance in our “Spiritual Growth” that we acknowledge the “obvious” thing God did to address the problem of darkness in His Creative process  was to introduce “Light” into the earth that was “without form and void” and was immersed in “darkness”. (Genesis 1:2a) The only source of power God employed was “the Spirit of God” (Genesis 1:2b) and He demonstrated the Spiritual Power of God when in the next verse we read “Then [after recognizing the emptiness and darkness] God said, ‘Let there be light’…” and immediately “…and there was light.”  From these first three verses we see that God assessed the negative which is “lack of purpose” and “darkness” and corrected the problem with  “the Spirit of God” speaking the solution with “let there be light”. Just as God saw “darkness” as the problem and “light” as the solution, Jesus saw “fear” as a problem and “faith” as the solution and the answer to all our questions and fears should be to focus our “spiritual eyes” on Jesus. Jesus told the most intellectual “Pharisee” named Nicodemus (who admitted Jesus was from God but wanted to know what Jesus had come to teach)  Jesus said “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3) and then made it clear that we have a “physical” birth into the world and we must have a “spiritual” birth to enter “the kingdom of God” when He tells Nicodemus “That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” (John 3:6) and in JQ#7 Jesus tells us to grow our “faith” to calm our “fears” therefore we should open our “Spiritual Eyes” to see the growth potential in what He accomplished in His Crowning Glory of Resurrection Sunday if we just “BELIEVE”!