JULY 04 JQ#18-8 “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15) The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

JULY 04   JQ#18-8 “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15) 

365 Prayers to JESUS 

Jesus, I come before You today with a thankful heart that I can come before You today — Lord, I know that I take it for granted that any time I decide to pray to You that You will hear my prayer but Lord today it is evident to me that You being there any time I pray is another reason that we should give You Praise and Glory and Honor. In God’s Great Plan for the world He has ordained that Salvation and Prayer will be as free and abundant as air and water and through Jesus we will have our “daily bread” and “living water”  and the assurance of eternal life! Praise the Father who has Promised to NEVER leave nor forsake us and who gave us PRAYER that we may confidently approach the throne of Grace. Thank You Father that we can know that Jesus has finished the work You gave Him to do so that we have Blessed Assurance that You will hear our prayers as soon as they are lifted. Also we give thanks that Your Spirit  inhabits our Praise — So Lord Jesus, I lift my Prayer of Thanksgiving and give You Praise that You have chosen to be our God — may we never lose sight of the great Freedom Your Grace imparts to all men.      AMEN

The Jesus Questions

JULY 04   JQ#18-8    “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15)   Jesus never leaves us hanging once He asks a question. Jesus asked His disciples “who do men say…I am” (Matthew 16:13) and then made His lesson clear as He immediately responded to their answer of who men were saying Jesus was by asking the really important question “but who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15) thereby teaching the disciples that what they have witnessed Jesus doing and have heard Him declaring about Himself are the Truth and that we should Trust what God Himself reveals to us and not depend on doctrines of men. Jesus then responded to Peter when Peter answered the “who-do-you-say-I-am-question” by declaring Jesus is “the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16). Jesus then acknowledged that our understanding of God comes directly from God Himself! Jesus confirmed several very important Truths of God through these questions and His immediate explanations — here are the Truths as they were revealed through these two “simple” questions: (1) What men say about God does not change the Truth of who God is. (2) God expects us to form our own opinion of who He is. (3) Jesus is the Christ. (4) Jesus is the Son of the living God. (5) God is not dead, He is living and is concerned about our eternal Salvation. (6) God will reveal His Truth to us. (8) God desires to be our “Father” which reveals His desire that we be His Sons and Daughters which He has Promised to Provide for if we but Trust Him, and believe in the “the Work of God” Jesus was sent to accomplish — the atonement of our sin that we may be clothed in the “Righteousness” of Jesus and can approach the Throne of Grace with great confidence that our “Father” desires us to come to Him with our every need and concern. (9) Jesus declared that on the revealed Truth from God that Jesus will build His Church. (10) Flesh and blood cannot reveal Truth but Truth will come by the Spirit of God to those that seek Him. (11) The foundation of the Church is the “rock” that is Jesus and the Truth that Jesus is the Christ and the TRUTH that (12) Jesus IS the Son of the living God and has been given “authority” by the “Father” and therefore, we should believe that Father God sent His Son Jesus as God’s Plan for our Salvation, as Jesus has declared, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) Only the Master Teacher and the Son of the Living God who has chosen to reveal Himself to us could Teach us so much Truth with two simple questions — perhaps we should stop one last time and look at  these two questions back to back and see what additional “Truths” God will reveal: (1) “Who do men say…[Jesus is]? ” and (2) “Who do [we ourselves] say … [Jesus is]?”  It’s worth a couple of extra minutes here at this point to know TRUTH or are you really to busy to “wait on the Lord” who has promised to “give you rest” and reveal His TRUTH to you while you’re waiting?!?!?