LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional
MAY 26 SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-13
365 Prayers to JESUS
Jesus, Praise be to the King of kings, the Eternal Light. Lord Jesus, Thy Word is TRUTH, Thy Way is PERFECT, only through You can we HOPE that our life can count for anything! Aside from our belief in You, we have nothing GOOD in us. Lord I pray for a RIGHT SPIRIT in my life so that it can be said that I do what is RIGHT in the eyes of the Lord — You are my strength and my very PRESENT HELP, I can do all things with You as my LIGHT leading me in PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. AMEN
The Jesus Questions
SRJQ#1-13 (Day12) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13.
Lesson 10 JQ#10 “What is your ‘Spiritual Value’?” Matthew 10:1-42
Jesus continually moves us forward in the kingdom as He first builds on His last lesson and during the present lesson He points us to where all His lesson/questions are leading next. Of course the “Final Destination” is Eternity in Heaven with God Himself but Jesus always keeps us equipped for handling the “Now” and He leaves Lesson 9 with three (3) miracles (1) a woman who had a “flow of blood” for 12 years was healed just by touching His garments and Jesus said; “Be of good cheer, daughter, your faith has made you well” (Matthew 9:22) and (2) Jesus raised a dead girl when “He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose (Matthew 9:25) and thirdly (3) two blind men we healed as they cried out “Son of David, have mercy on us!” (Matthew 9:27) It was at this point that Jesus asked the question that reveals the TRUTH of JESUS and His healing powers as He queried the two blind men, “Do you BELIEVE that I am able to do this?” (Matthew 9:28). Jesus then confirms the source of His Power as He heals the blind men and then reveals the TRUTH: “According to you faith let it be to you.” Jesus used these miracles and tied them to “Personal Faith” that Jesus is who He says He is and then He moves to His next teaching question in JQ#10 “What is your ‘Spiritual Value’?”. Jesus has just demonstrated His “Spiritual Power” and plainly tells us that it was through “Faith” that Jesus is the Son of God sent to bestow Mercy and Grace on a lost and dying world that these 3 miracles were accomplished and then He effectively tells us that if we have “FAITH IN JESUS” that we also will have great “Spiritual Value”. Jesus started JQ#10 with the easy question to answer about “two sparrows” having value therefore we are of more value than two sparrows but He then turns our thinking towards some very serious reasons why we should believe that God is in control, Jesus is the Son of God, and why we have “Spiritual Value”! There are some very serious “consequences” if we do not “believe” as Jesus warns us … “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matthew 10:28) So Jesus transitioned from a light-hearted question about sparrows to a very serious discussion about destruction of “both soul and body in hell.” Jesus uses the light-hearted and the very serious to create a contrast that really gets our attention and the lesson here is that we have “both soul and body” and while the “body” is “finite” and will die and be buried, our “soul” is “eternal” therefore we should give great consideration to what we are doing to recognize the grave importance of our “Spiritual Value”! Jesus teaches in JQ#9 that there is a great miracle working “Spiritual Power” at our disposal that is proportional to our “Faith in God” and then He teaches in JQ#10 that our “Faith in God” will have “Eternal Consequences” for our “Soul”, so where do you think Jesus is pointing for JQ#11?
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