APRIL 19 THE JESUS QUESTIONS (Day 5) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#01-01—JQ#13-07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, it is beyond my understanding “why” You and the Father would “Love” a world of lost sinners such as myself. Lord Jesus, I praise You for this “knowing” that the Holy Spirit has imparted to me that says to me that for my “spiritual” health I do not need to understand or explain “why” You “Love” me but it is enough to KNOW WITH CERTAINTY that You “Love” me and that You demonstrated that “Love” by Your death on the Cross, the Father has also demonstrated His “Love” towards us in that He RESURRECTED You from the grave! Lord Jesus, my prayer is simply to let my life reflect that Supreme Love with which I KNOW THAT I AM LOVED BY GOD! AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus so far in His first 2 Lessons has taught us to be aware of our personal responsibility to our own eternity and to the Kingdom. Jesus then started us on our “Spiritual Journey” with the Primary Tool to accomplish Kingdom Work and that necessary tool to get to God’s Kingdom is God’s GPS system which is the “LOVE OF GOD”.
Lesson 3 JQ#3 “What good is worry or ‘who cares’?” Matthew 6:25-34
Jesus then asked His 3rd Question to get us to fully appreciate the first two Lessons when He bluntly asks us “What good is worry?” and to help us keep the proper spiritual perspective on “worry” Jesus illustrates the best of all reasons not to worry — Jesus tells us that everything we could possibly worry about has already been or will be taken care of by “The Father” that knows our every need! Jesus is illustrating another “Truth of God” by showing us that if we will take the “negative” which is “worry” and learn that we can exercise our “spiritual” muscle and make a “positive” out of the “negative worrying” by turning our “worry” into “Trusting God” then we are well on our way to understanding “Faith” and how to “grow” our Faith by Trusting in God! This very important Spiritual Lesson of “Trusting God” is the perfect companion to “Love” — and with our knowing that we have a personal responsibility to the Kingdom — and that God will provide everything we need to complete our “Journey to Eternity” with Him — and that our obligation is to “Love” as the Father “Loves” and to “Trust God” that He will provide our every need — then we will not “worry” but move expectantly towards our Eternity as we walk by “Faith” — “Faith” not in ourselves but “Faith in our Heavenly Father” and His desire for our good! This journey of “Faith” becomes our life as we worry less and less as we see day by day that God has provided for the lilies of the field and clothes them so beautifully! We grow our “Faith in God” as we recognize that if God does such amazing things with birds and flowers and the sun, moon, and stars that it becomes obvious to even the most casual observer that God cares so much more about us!!! God confirmed His Love for us because He made us in His image! So we can answer with confidence that we do not need to “worry” because “God cares” about our lives! Jesus ends the Lesson with another beautiful summary of this Lesson on the Truth of God’s Love with a simple but powerful thought: “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33) I know myself that when I realized that if God is going to add “all these things” to me simply because He desires to impart His Righteousness on me so that I can enter His Kingdom, then I am no longer “worried” about “all these things” and my “Faith in God” grows proportional to how successful I am in turning “worry about the world” into “trusting in the Goodness of God”! If you just stop and think about it in your own life, has the world or God provided for your daily bread? ***After all, if we know bread comes from a seed, then isn’t the One who imparts life to the seed more important to our daily bread than the one who gathers the grain?***
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