FEBRUARY 17 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#04-04 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#4 “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

FEBRUARY 17  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#04-04 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<<   JQ#4  “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)

048 of 365 - Prayers to JESUS    

Jesus, each day as I start my day with the thought of “Jesus”, there is a Peace that cannot be explained but LORD I need no explanation and that amplifies my Peace. There is no name like the Name of Jesus and there are no thoughts like thinking about Jesus! Each morning as I rise and go to Your Holy Word there is an eternal Hope for my life and then I write the Name “JESUS” and my soul knows that You are the Light of men and that Your Light is THE  LIFE. Jesus forgive me of my daily shortcomings and carry me until I finally become One with You, the Father, and the Holy Spirit.     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

FEBRUARY 17  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#04-04 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<<   JQ#4  “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3) Jesus is the Master Teacher and He has been Teaching these first four Lessons in a specific order therefore He has a specific overall objective for each Lesson builds upon the last Lesson and then points us to the next Lesson while keeping us focused in the direction of the “Light” of "understanding" that He is leading us to. This section on “Judging” has been a struggle for me and my spirit feels violated by the world. Jesus was always Teaching Lessons that are universal in that every soul of every generation can apply His Teaching to their daily lives. I know that every thing that I read about in God’s Holy Word points to Jesus and when we focus on Jesus we can see God’s love being poured out on all generations through the Great Sacrifice and Obedience of the Only Begotten Son yet when I read a command from Jesus as written in Matthew 7:6 I struggle with the command, not because I struggle with following Jesus but I struggle with the fear that I am not understanding the True Lesson Jesus is trying to teach when He says “Do not give what is holy to the dogs…” (Matthew 7:6)!! Yesterday the Holy Spirit led me consider that this new age of unbelievers are in the process of “re-defining” the “Moral Standard” by which we “judge” our actions and it is through that process of “re-defining the Moral Standard” that they have removed all that is “Holy” from the judgment process thereby making the Moral Standard relative to the reigning political thought of what is best for the political beast to retain power! I gave two instances: (1) Abortion and (2) Same Sex Marriage. If we look at “Abortion” from its “re-definition” then we see that the politics of abortion is what is driving the re-definition of  abortion which is now defined from the political viewpoint which in our modern society is “the woman’s right to choose”. There is a great conflict with God’s word with this modern re-definition of “abortion” as the “woman’s right”??  God grants each individual life and God does not give the “right” to take that “life” from the individual God gave life to. Only by taking the “Holy” aspect away from life can they “re-define” abortion! You cannot show a single abortion that has not deprived an individual of that individual’s “God given right to life”!! The same is true with “Same Sex Marriage” — Two people of the same sex have been given by those seeking political power the “legal” right to marriage but there is no way that same sex couples can enter into “Holy Matrimony”. The political “re-definition” of marriage has had the “Holy” element of marriage removed therefore “Holy Matrimony” is impossible when “Holy” has been politically removed!  Again this has been done to “re-define” those terms that have always kept our moral compass pointing to the “Truth” of God. Jesus is teaching us on “judging” in Matthew 7:6 that we must not abandon God’s Laws and we should always “judge” as led by the Holy Spirit of God and not by some “re-definition” of men seeking to remove that which is “Holy” from the “Moral Standard” as determined by God as to the True Definition of “Right and Wrong”. God is Eternal and His Holiness is as unchanging as God Himself and His Holiness must not be removed from the laws of our society — for without God’s Standards which are “Holy”, we are left with man’s standard which is “fallen” from God’s Holiness and we are left with a un-Holy Godless Society without a Moral Compass for our Guiding Light — and where there is no “Light” to guide us, we always end up in darkness! Tomorrow we will start looking at JQ#5 in Matthew 7:7-12 which will return “Holy” to our judgments.