LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional
MAY 07 JQ#13 - Is your life a plus or a minus in God’s kingdom?
365 Prayers to JESUS
Jesus, Lord and Master, my Redeemer and the Lover of my soul, Praise be the Lamb of God, the Light of the world. Lord we cannot begin with our limited words to express or give You the Glory due to the Son of God in whom the Father is well pleased. For how can man’s mortal words express from our defiled heart words to compare with expressions from the Divine Holy God who has entrusted all that the Father has to the Beloved Son? No words can express Your Glory but let these three be spoken, JESUS IS WORTHY!! AMEN
The Jesus Questions
JQ#13.1 — “Is your life a plus or a minus in God’s kingdom?” (Matthew 12:24-37). Just as soon as Jesus teaches one question/lesson He immediately ties all the previous lessons together and introduces the next “precept” and draws the next “line” in the sands of our life and we begin to understand that this Infinite Knowledge being shared by the Master Teacher will never be exhausted! Therefore let us “Stay the course” and continue to “Run the race and fight the good fight” as we look at the Foundation built on the Rock and know that we are building a “house” that the storms of life will not prevail against if we but continue to build our wall of Faith “line upon line” and “precept upon precept” as taught by the Master Teacher, Jesus the Christ! In the last few Jesus Questions/lessons we can see Jesus moving our consciousness in a controlled and specific direction and it becomes obvious we could not have arrived at the answers without this Divine Guidance. In JQ#10 Jesus made us stop and consider “What is your Spiritual value?” and in JQ#11 He next asked us “What are your Spiritual expectations?” and to keep us headed in the right direction towards the kingdom, Jesus asked us in JQ#12 “Who decides what is legal, God or man?”. When we can finally declare to Jesus, our Spiritual value is proportional to our Spiritual life and we can also declare with honesty that our Spiritual expectations were formerly directed towards “Self” and we mostly saw Jesus as an historical figure who went about doing good and never as “The Living God” interested in teaching us how to go about doing good with our own lives — but when we truly concede that God is the One, the Only, and the Final Authority and Judge, Jesus then makes us see that we are not just supposed to “talk the talk” but we must for the kingdom’s sake “walk the walk” as He asks JQ#13 “Is your life a plus or a minus in God’s kingdom?” The context for JQ#13 is all of Matthew up to JQ#13 which specifically starts at Matthew 12:24 and runs through Matthew 12:37. Just as in previous lessons Jesus always makes an opening statement that shifts our focus to a new topic and Jesus again grabs our “Spiritual” attention as He addresses the Pharisee’s new accusation that Jesus “cast out demons…by Beelzebub” (Matthew 12:24) when Jesus replies to this devilish accusation that: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand…” (Matthew 12:25) The relevancy of these lessons and topics to our world today should be proof to us that Jesus is the All-Knowing Living God, for I cannot read these two verses without thinking about the great division in our nation and in our world today and the news is full of ongoing desolation and wars and there is no denying that our nation has turned from God. There clearly is no “unity” of “Spirit” anywhere to be seen! Don’t you think that maybe Jesus has “Struck another nerve in o`1234ASDFGHZXCur spiritual consciousness“ and we should see what Jesus has to teach us about “a kingdom divided”?
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