LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional
MAY 18 SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-13
365 Prayers to JESUS
Jesus, it is beyond my understanding “why” would You and the Father “Love” a world of lost sinners such as myself. Lord Jesus, I praise You for this “knowing” that the Holy Spirit has imparted to me that says to me that for my “spiritual” health I do not need to understand or explain “why” You “Love” me but it is “enough to KNOW that You “Love” me and that You demonstrated that “Love” by Your death on the Cross and the Father demonstrated His “Love” towards us that He RESURRECTED You from the grave! Lord Jesus, my prayer is simply to let my life reflect that Supreme Love with which I KNOW I AM LOVED! AMEN
The Jesus Questions
SRJQ#1-13 (Day 5) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13.
Lesson 3 JQ#3 “What good is worry or ‘who cares’?” Matthew 6:25-34
So far in our “Question/Lessons” Jesus has in the first two lessons taught us to be aware of our personal responsibility to our own eternity and the Kingdom and then Jesus started us on our “Spiritual” journey with the one tool we must become familiar with if we are to find our way and that necessary tool is God’s GPS system which is the “Love of God”. Jesus then asked His 3rd Question to get us to appreciate the first two lessons when He bluntly asks us “What good is worry?” and to help us keep the proper spiritual perspective on “worry” Jesus illustrates the best of all reasons not to worry and that is because everything we could possibly worry about has been or will be taken care of by “The Father” that knows our every need. Jesus is illustrating another “Truth of God” by showing us that if we will take the “negative” which is “worry” and learn that we can exercise our “spiritual” muscle and make a “positive” out of the “negative worrying” by turning our “worry” into “Trusting God” then we are well on our way to understanding “Faith” and how to “grow” our Faith by Trusting in God! This very important lesson of “Trust” is the perfect companion to “Love” and with our knowing that we have a personal responsibility to the Kingdom and that God will provide everything we need to complete our journey to eternity with Him and that our obligation is to “Love” as the Father “Loves” and to “Trust” that He will provide our every need then we will not “worry” but move expectantly towards our eternity as we walk by “Faith”, “Faith” not in ourselves but “Faith” in our Heavenly Father and His desire for our good. This journey of “Faith” becomes our life as we worry less and less as we see day by day that God has provided for the lilies of the field and clothes them so beautifully! We grow our “Faith” as we recognize that if God does such amazing things with birds and flowers and the sun, moon, and stars that He cares so much more about us because He made us in His image! So we can answer with confidence that we do not need to “worry” because “God cares” about our lives! Jesus ends the lesson with another beautiful summary of the lesson truth with a simple but powerful thought: “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” I know myself that when I realized that if God is going to add “all these things” to me simply because He desires to impart His Righteousness on me so that I can enter His Kingdom, that I no longer worried about “all these things” and my faith grew proportional to how successful I was in turning “worry about the world” into “trusting in the Goodness of God”! If you just stop and think about it in your own life, has the world or God provided for your daily bread? After all, if we know bread comes from a seed, then isn’t the One who imparts life to the seed more important to our daily bread than the one who gathers the grain?
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