MAY 10 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#15 “O you of little faith, why do you doubt?” (Matthew 14:31)

 MAY 10  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#15 “O you of little faith, why do you doubt?”  (Matthew 14:31)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, O the sweet privilege to say the Name above all names, Jesus. There is great comfort in knowing that there is the Power of all powers in the Name of Jesus and we have been given the right to speak the Name Jesus and bring that Power to play in our lives! Jesus, I bow before You and humbly ask that You grant that my life will be given to serving You and that the way that I lived my life for myself before I started living for You will be buried with my sins. I pray that the New Life I now live with You in me will be used totally for the Glory of God.             AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus never really leaves one Lesson standing alone and moves on to another separate Lesson, but Jesus always uses His previous Lessons to weave together our “understanding” of what “Life” with God really means, both now in the physical and what “knowing God” means for our eternal spiritual future! Jesus used every situation He found Himself in to “Teach” us “to know” our Father in heaven and to prepare us to enter through the narrow gate into the kingdom of heaven that the Father has established for all those that “Believe in God”. Those that “Choose” to “Believe in God” will spend eternity with Him by virtue of their “Choice”! After Jesus Taught the multitudes in parables He then went to His “own country” but was rejected because those that knew Jesus as the son of Mary could not see Jesus as the Son of God! Because of their “unbelief”, the “Spiritual Power” of Jesus was limited as we read Matthew’s account of Jesus being rejected by those in His “own country”: “Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.” (Matthew 13:58) Lest we miss the Lesson contained here in these 6 verses to end the 13th chapter in Matthew, let us stop and consider that these 6 verses are just as “inspired” as are all verses in scripture and let us look at the context, for Jesus never used a problem to gain sympathy for Himself but was continually drawing our attention to the “Truth of God”! These 6 verses reveal what I believe is one of the most overlooked “Truth of God” as Jesus reveals how the Father has chosen to be “sovereign” and demonstrate His Power over all Creation. Think for a moment about the “Free Will” gift that God has given mankind and apply it to this situation where Jesus was rejected by His “own” with the results being that Jesus “did not do many mighty works there…”. A surface reading from a worldly viewpoint would say that Jesus was mad at them and was just “pouting” and that Jesus simply decided that He would not do any “mighty works” because of some form of punishment ——— but immediately we can see that thinking negatively like that goes against everything Jesus has been Teaching and against everything Jesus has been demonstrating with His life which was being Perfectly Lived through the Power of GOD to help others. The Truth of God that is overlooked is that when God gave us the “gift” of “Free Will” that God demonstrated His Supreme Confidence in His Ability to handle every circumstance and therefore God said that if we want to use our “Free Will” to reject Him that He promised to “honor” that “choice”, not because we deserve to have our “choices” honored but because God Himself “Chose” to bestow His Honor on our “Choice”.  The Truth of God is that the Power of God is bestowed on our “Choice” ——— in other words, God says: “If you want to use your Free Will to reject Me, that because of who I AM, I will not force you to accept Me, but I will remove Myself from you until you choose to allow Me back into your life!” Jesus is demonstrating that our “Belief in God” carries the the Power of God with it and although Jesus wanted to “Give” and to “Teach” the Lessons of the kingdom of heaven to the people in His “own country” that when they used their God-Given Power of Free Will to “reject Him” that He honored their “choice”! Therefore it was their “unbelief” that prevented Jesus from bestowing the blessing of “understanding” on them! God has proven that He will not take back any gift that He gives us and that we have a “spiritual responsibility” to use the “gifts” God bestows on us to help others but if we “choose” to trust in ourselves and reject God, that is exactly what we will get! God will respect our “choice” and we will simply have to go through life without God and that “Choice” will extend to our eternity as well, because it is only logical that if we choose to live without God then we have also chosen to die without God! I don’t know about you but I can’t think of a sadder circumstance than to have all the Power of God at your command but then “choose” to call God and His Omnipotent Power useless and dispose of it instead of using it in our lives as God intended with His “Gift” of “Freewill Choice”? Can’t you see that when we “choose” to live without God that we are wielding the only Power able to prevent God from working in our life!!! By rejecting God, we bring all these negative things on ourself because of our “unbelief” and “unbelief” grows from a single seed of “doubt”!!! Be careful how you use your Free Will, it has eternal consequences and it is totally in your control!! Can you hear Jesus asking, “O you of little faith, why do you doubt?”