AUGUST 09 JQ#21-14 “What do you think about fish, taxes, lost sheep, forgiveness, and your fellow servants?” (Matthew 17:25, 18:12,33) The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

AUGUST 09   JQ#21-14  “What do you think about fish, taxes, lost sheep, forgiveness, and your fellow servants?” (Matthew 17:25, 18:12,33) 

365 Prayers to JESUS 

Jesus I turn each morning to Your Word and look to the rising sun as Your Promise to never leave us nor forsake us. Lord Jesus, my prayer today is that I can share this “Peace” in knowing You with others that You will place in my path today and make me mindful that whatever circumstance I find myself in that I will have Your Peace with me always but if I don’t share Your Peace with those that don’t know You, then that becomes a lose-lose-lose situation, they lose because they don’t have You, they lose because without You they can’t have Your Peace, and I lose for I lost an opportunity to grow closer to You by sharing You and Your Peace with the world that is hurting so much because the world has turned from God. Forgive me when I fail to continually thank You for each time I breathe in the sweet fragrance of Your Love and Peace in my life and not share it with others as You have commanded.      AMEN

The Jesus Questions

AUGUST 09   JQ#21-14  “What do you think about fish, taxes, lost sheep, forgiveness, and your fellow servants?” (Matthew 17:25, 18:12,33)   Jesus does not teach us the same lesson over and over just so that He can hear Himself talk. Jesus who is both Infinite and Divine cannot possibly need to beat our brow for His sake, so when He attacks a problem again and again we must take note and make every effort to learn what He is Teaching. First we must consider the obvious and ask ourselves “why would a Deity with Infinite Knowledge forfeit His Deity to become flesh and suffer and die at the hands of sinners?” This is a Mystery of God that can only be answered by God Himself but even if we never get the answer in our lifetime we should not be so foolish as to conclude that because God does not “explain Himself” in terms our limited intellect can comprehend, that God Himself has no relevance in our life! God has revealed Himself as He wants us to know Him from our earthly viewpoint so that we can come to a “spiritual understanding” of God that will open the door to our “eternal” future. I do not have to know how gravity works or be able to explain all the physics involved to know that gravity exists. Today’s world tells us that God does not exist and that is supposed to be the “Truth” because they have been given a degree in some scientific discipline by some university that has a very high tuition? Both God and gravity defies scientific explanation but we accept gravity because we have felt it working in our daily lives. We say that gravity was “discovered” by Sir Isaac Newton when an apple fell on his head but fail to see the Truth that gravity existed BEFORE it was “discovered” (if gravity didn’t exist before it was discovered then what made the apple fall in the first place?) and secondly, even though it was “discovered” it has never been fully explained but even though science cannot explain gravity, our lives are still impacted by gravity and we simply could not exist without it. We know gravity is “real” because we can see the physical results of gravity such as a falling apple or something so simple as a pencil laying quietly on a table — take away gravity and that pencil and the table will be floating around in the absence of gravity and that is a picture of our world without God holding us “spiritually” in place, we are just floating aimlessly around in space and we are at the mercy of others and we’ll go in the direction of the latest “push” from the powers that are telling us God doesn’t exist and is not relevant in our lives. God is real and can be proven very simply, God can be felt just as real as an apple that falls from the tree but we have to have ourselves in the apples path to feel it and to feel God we must place ourself in His Path. Simply look for Him and His Spirit will touch your heart and just like our physical body is aware of the presence of gravity, our “spiritual” part of our being will know when it is in the Presence of God for God is an unexplained Spirit and that Spirit is to our soul what gravity is to our body, the Spirit keeps us grounded in eternity just like gravity keeps our bodies grounded to this earth on which we temporarily reside.  Truth is that both gravity and God work on us on a personal basis without the explanation of the scientific community and are governed not by man’s laws but by God Himself. To entertain the possibility that God does not exist is to allow others to control the gravity in your life and I personally don’t want those that seek personal power over others to control what they can’t explain, and that goes for both gravity, which by the way it is imperative that I keep in touch with gravity on a personal basis without having to wait on some lawyer or politician telling me how to use my personal gravity and the same is true for my “spiritual” gravity which I do not want to have to wait on some lawyer or politician telling me how to use God who they can’t explain either! God is revealed by gravity and we must make our own “discovery” and admit that if we can explain Him or not He EXISTS ——— how do we explain the things we have observed that can only be explained by the True Existence of a Power no scientist can ever explain?