LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional
MAY 19 SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-13
365 Prayers to JESUS
Jesus, as always, this time that I spend directly with You in the form of prayer is the most important part of my day. Lord Jesus, it is not always easy to look at the necessity to daily pick up “our” cross and follow you without a little apprehension but then it is Your Peace that makes me realize there is no other name that we can call on for “Peace” for Jesus, only You have the Words of eternal life and we can say when we feel our cross is getting a little to heavy for us to bear, Lord Jesus I know I can do this if You will just help me for You Lord carried Your Cross to the point of success that You could declare with Your dying breath “It is finished”! O Lord Jesus, give me the strength to endure to the end of these earthly trials to where I to can finish my race with confidence in the Only Begotten of the Father and proclaim as I enter into Your Rest — “It is finished” and I can hear You say “Well done!”. AMEN
The Jesus Questions
SRJQ#1-13 (Day 6) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13.
Lesson 4 JQ#4 JQ#4 “What gives you the right to judge?” Matthew 7:1-6
In this review so far we found JQ#1 asked us to consider our own personal responsibility to the Kingdom of God then JQ#2 taught us that we need God’s GPS for our journey to Him which whenever we get off the path we just need to remember that the “Love of God” will never steer us wrong and will keep us on the “Straight-and-Narrow” path to the “Kingdom of God”. JQ#3 opened our eyes to God’s great provisions for us and because He cares so much for us that we should “Trust God” in “all things” and we should not “worry” about those things the Father has promised that He will take care of because He Loves us! To keep things personal Jesus then teaches us that just as we “Trust God” for our “physical” needs that we should also realize that God wants to take care of our “Spiritual” needs as well. Jesus not only makes it personal with JQ#4 “What gives you the right to judge?” He also makes it serious as He warns us that our own worst enemy is ourselves as He emphatically uses the term “Hypocrite!” (Matthew 7:5). The fact that this is a personal issue is established when Jesus first states the problem: “JUDGE not, that you be not judged” (Matthew 7:1) and then Jesus makes us aware that if we take on the personal responsibility to “judge others” then we will be personally responsible for being “judged ourselves” in a like manner! Jesus declares the “consequence” of us choosing to be the “judge” when He states: “For with what judgement you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measure back to you.” (Matthew 7:2) When you think about the fact that God just told you that He was going to provide for you (in JQ#3) if you will “Trust Him” then why would we try to take in His job as “Judge of the Universe” away from Him and take all that responsibility on yourself in JQ#4 just after having given your “worries” over to Him in JQ#3? Jesus keeps us focused on the fact that if we are going to “Trust God” with “some things” that we should “Trust God in All things” for we are the created and He is the Creator; therefore, we should let Him “judge” others for He knows all things and can see everything from a Divine Perspective while we are sinners and at best our “judgement” will always have a degree of personal bias to it — so Jesus says the best way to prevent us “sinning” against God is to “not judge” others for we will be a “hypocrite” if we say we “Trust God” but do not let Him do His job. Jesus teaches us with JQ#4 that we do not have the “right to judge others” because the “right to judge” belongs to God and God Alone! Why should we “Trust” a God that needs our help in deciding what is “Right or Wrong”? Once we start down the path of assuming the responsibility designated to the Divine Creator then we will quickly find that we are unable to navigate through the “Infinite” with our severely limited “finite” intellect! Don’t you think the safest path is to follow the route Jesus has already traveled and successfully reached His Divine Destination?
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