APRIL 4 The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

April 4 / Day 36

365 Prayers to JESUS

Jesus, another new day, another “son” rise, the air is fresh with Your Mercies and Your Grace and my soul sings a new song and all these wonderful things are the Fruit of Your Divine Love. Lord let us decrease in our selfishness and darkness and let Your Light shine through us into a dark world just as the rising sun shines forth to dispel the night, may our “Light of the Risen Lord” burst forth so that those in need will be showered in “Hope” that the new day will be filled with blessings from the “True Light” which gives “life” to men! 

The Jesus Questions

JQ#8 -  Yesterday we looked at how personal Jesus makes His teachings as we looked at His question in Matthew 9:4. Here again we find that in order to find the complete “Truth” in His teachings we must look at the “Big Picture” and as Sharon Anderson said when we started this journey in “The Jesus Questions”, “context is king!” Also, in the completeness of His teachings we must look at every aspect that Jesus touches so we must dig deeper into the scripture to find those “gems” of understanding that can always be found by “digging deeper”. One tool that is helpful in going deeper is using “The Law of Choice and Consequence”. From the beginning God has been very clear that He knows everything we do and He is very clear that our “Choices” will result in actions {See JQ#6 “You will know them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:16)}  and God makes it very clear that our actions will result in “Consequences”. God has reserved the right to determine the results of our actions but He has also made it very clear that He allows “Free Will” and He will never interfere with our “Freedom of Choice”! One of the big problems with this modern philosophy of “tolerance” is that the world has decided that God doesn’t exist, therefore His Laws no longer apply, and the world has established a new set of laws, the real problem being of course, is that God is the “everlasting God” and has not had His Supreme Power lessened by man’s evil desires. God will always have control and power and each generation is personally responsible for coming to make the choice that determines an individual’s eternity, and that “choice” is simple, (1) We choose to Trust God and live according to His Law and we will inherit eternal life with the Father or (2) We choose to make our own laws and ignore God’s Law and live according to our selfish nature and we will inherit eternal separation from God. Let us look at the context of JQ#8 in terms of “Choice” and see if God is “consistent” in His “consequences” as He has written in His Word. In Matthew 9:2 we read, “…they brought to [Jesus] a paralytic…And when Jesus saw their faith…” Jesus forgave the paralytic of his sins. The Law of Choice and Consequence can be observed by looking at the actions and then seeing what the results were of the choices each person made. It works well to make a list of who did what and then see see the result of their actions. For teaching purposes read Matthew 9:1-4 and list the person, the choice/action each person made, and then write the result (consequence) of their choice, for example in Matthew 9:2 we read “they brought to Him” which means “they” choose to take the paralytic to Jesus so in the “Who” Column write “They” then in the “Action/Choice Column” write “Brought to Jesus the paralytic” and in the “Result/Consequence Column” write “Jesus healed the paralytic because of their faith” . You have just dug deeper into the Word, what do you think the “Consequence” of that action will be?