JULY 21 JQ#20-2 “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?” (Matthew 17:17) The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

JULY 21   JQ#20-2  “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?” (Matthew 17:17) 

365 Prayers to JESUS 

Jesus, Precious Jesus, Lord I thank you for Your daily Presence in my life even when I am not aware that You are there, Lord forgive me when I get so caught up in living my day-to-day existence in this “physical” world that my “spiritual eyes” are blinded to the Truth of God that Your Holy Spirit abides with us continually. For just as soon as my thoughts turned to You in prayer, I have Your Promise that immediately and without any interference of any kind, You hear my prayer. Lord Jesus, You paid such a Great Price to Purchase our Pardon and we seldom stop and consider that You ARE GOD and can exist without us and yet You brought Your Total and Supreme Power to bear on the problem of our sin and that You have already made the Ultimate Sacrifice of Your Divinity so that our sins against You could be forgiven ——— all for the sake of “lost souls” that we would not be left out in the cold and eternal darkness of our sin. Lord, shine Your Light ever on my soul and guide me to the Narrow Gate where You stand even now waiting for this lost soul to come “Home”.      AMEN

The Jesus Questions

JULY 21   JQ#20-2  “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?” (Matthew 17:17)   Jesus not only uses  our circumstances to “Teach”, He uses circumstances of others and how He has already resolved those circumstances to “Teach” us the Truths of God which exist in every thing that enters into our consciousness. Jesus is always “Teaching” and is the “Master Teacher” but we must be careful not to focus entirely on Jesus as the Master Teacher because when we see Jesus as only a “Teacher” that we miss the Truth of God of “why” Jesus is the “Master”, not only of “Teaching”, but of every aspect of “Who” Jesus is!!!  We must never lose sight of the fact that Jesus is the Master because HE IS GOD and it is HIS DIVINITY that gives HIM UNLIMITED POWER, HE IS THE CREATOR, and HE IS UNDERSTANDING ITSELF. All things are of God and therefore all things are good, but in God’s Graciousness He has bestowed on mankind the Ultimate Gift of Free Will and it is “misuse” of Free Will that mankind introduces “sin” into the world and into our daily lives. God made man and then God endowed Free Will and God then both blessed and cursed us at the same time as He promised that He would not interfere with our “choices” made using the Gift of Free Will — even if we “choose” not to believe in Him, He will honor His Gift of Free Will — and it is this misuse of Free Will that takes the “good” that God put in every thing in His creation and “defiles” the natural good of God, it is God that made all things “Good” but is is mankind that uses His Gift of Free Will to defile the “Good of God” and we see why in Genesis at the very beginning of all things that God looked on the emptiness and saw the need for “Light” to dispel the darkness and it was at that point God declared the “Light” as “Good” and then God separated the “Light” from the “darkness”. So if we see Jesus as only a “Teacher” then we will miss the “Lesson” because Jesus is “Teaching” with all His Questions that there is in our lives God’s Truth and this Truth must be lived to truly be learned and that the “Lesson” that impacts our “soul” can only come from the Creator of our soul, and that is God — man has produced many teachers and they have taught many lessons but only God is the “Master Teacher” and the “Lessons” He teaches are from God and are of God and it is because God is the Creator of all “understanding” and our “soul” that we can actually learn the Truth of God — so when we contemplate the “Questions” Jesus asks, we must endeavor to “learn” from the viewpoint that it is God prodding our understanding to impart His Wisdom to us that we might have “abundant life” that can only come from God Himself ——— so when we consider it is God use the term “faithless and perverse generation” and then asks “how long shall I be with you?” (Matthew 17:17) that we should look very intently at the words use as the very “Words of God” and get serious about learning that “Lesson” He desires to impart to us. Doesn’t it make good sense that is is God calling mankind out on being “faithless and perverse” and then turns right around and warns that there is a time limit (“how long”) for Him to “…bear with [us]…” that we consider first that it is God asking us a serious question and we should stop and give our full attention to being able to answer God honestly?