LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional
AUGUST 28 JQ#22-8 “Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things?” (Matthew 20:15)
365 Prayers to JESUS
Jesus, O the glory of Your perfect Love shown by Your Sacrifice of self, and obedience to the Father’s will. You created the earth and then left Your Glory in heaven to be born of a virgin to experience a life as that which You created! Truly You are God, for no graven images or carved idols has ever dwelt among their subjects and took the form as the lowest and most humble, but Jesus, we can’t be too young or too old or too poor or too weak to receive Your Grace. You paid it all, You lived it all, You covered it all, all to You I owe. Lead and direct me hour by hour. AMEN
The Jesus Questions
AUGUST 28 JQ#22-8 “Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things?” (Matthew 20:15) Jesus used this section of scripture to bring our attention to the fact that God in His Sovereignty has the Right to do whatever God desires with His Creation! There are those that fail to see that this is a very good thing for the creation for God is also Merciful and Compassionate! When men get involved with controlling other men there is always a problem! Because God can create without limit, God is never selfish, but men cannot create so they try to use whatever advantage they have to take a larger share of the resources — God being Sovereign and unlimited in His Power needs not to take from others to gain any advantage, what greater advantage can there be than being the One True Creator God? There is much wisdom in what Jesus teaches us about God through this section on God’s Sovereign Right to do what He pleases with His Creation, especially in the parable of the landowner. The Truth of God is that God is Fair, Just, Compassionate, and that God desires to have a personal relationship with everyone and for those that will receive Him, He gives and gives and gives some more as we read phrases like “shall receive a hundredfold” which is a large return on any investment, “inherit eternal life” which is the best life available at any cost, “and about the eleventh hour he went out and found others” so God is seeking to do good and will do so until the very last soul is added to the kingdom, but the phrase that is most revealing in my opinion is “whatever is right I will give you” which is the best wage anyone could possibly hope for. God makes it simple to please Him as demonstrated by the fact that He declares “let the little children come to Me…for such is the kingdom of heaven” and for entry into heaven we do not need to accumulate earthly wealth but instead God makes it easy for He tells us to “sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasures in heaven” and then God commands us simply “come follow Me”!!! When I stop and think about all the demands that earthly men in positions of power have placed on our society and the despair caused by greed we understand why men use phrases like “it’s a dog eat dog world” and “only the strong survive” and why in every society and generation since the beginning of man’s dominance over other men there has been “death and taxes”. There are more laws passed by men than can be counted and they are written for our “safety” but the truth is revealed not in the law itself but in the “enforcement” of the law and when one man “lords” his power over another, the resulting circumstance always end up to the advantage of the strong and powerful. God always uses His Strength to uphold the weak, and God gives us an abundant life here on earth and promises that if we trust Him that we will “pass from death into everlasting life” (John 5:24) and God does not require any payment or taxes, just “faith” in His promise that “whatever is right [God] will give us” !!! (Matthew 20:4) It is to our advantage to become as “little children” in our lives and trust that indeed it is “lawful” for God to do whatever He desires with His own Creation!!!
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