JUNE 21 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#20 “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?” (Matthew 17:17)

 JUNE 21  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#20  “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?” (Matthew 17:17)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Precious Jesus, Lord I thank You for Your daily Presence in my life even when I am not aware that You are there, Lord forgive me when I get so caught up in living my day-to-day existence in this “physical” world that my “spiritual eyes” are blinded to the Truth of God that Your Holy Spirit abides with us continually. For just as soon as my thoughts turn to You in prayer, I have Your Promise that immediately and without any interference of any kind, You hear my prayer. Lord Jesus, You paid such a Great Price to Purchase our Pardon and we seldom stop and consider that You ARE GOD and can exist without us and yet You brought Your Total and Supreme Power to bear on the problem of our sin and that You have already made the Ultimate Sacrifice for us so that our sins against You could be forgiven ——— the Innocent was Sacrificed for the guilty ——— all for the sake of “lost souls” so that we would not be left out in the cold and eternal darkness of our sin. Lord, shine Your Light ever on my soul and guide me to the Narrow Gate where You stand even now waiting for this lost soul to come “Home”.     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus not only uses  our circumstances to “Teach”, He uses circumstances of others and how He has already resolved those circumstances to “Teach” us the Truths of God which exist in every thing that enters into our consciousness. Jesus is always “Teaching” and is the “Master Teacher” but we must be careful not to focus entirely on Jesus as the Master Teacher because when we see Jesus as only a “Teacher” we miss the Truth of God of “why” Jesus is the “Master”, not only of “Teaching”, but of every aspect of “Who” Jesus is!!!  We must never lose sight of the fact that Jesus is the Master because HE IS GOD and it is HIS DIVINITY that gives HIM UNLIMITED POWER, HE IS THE CREATOR, and HE IS “UNDERSTANDING” ITSELF. All things are of God and therefore all things are good! In God’s Graciousness He has bestowed on mankind the Ultimate Gift of Free Will — sadly, it is with the “misuse” of Free Will that mankind introduces “sin” into the world and into our daily lives. God made man and then God endowed His Creation with Free Will — God then both blessed and cursed us at the same time as He promised that He would not interfere with our “daily choices” each of us make using God’s Gift of Free Will — even if we “choose” not to believe in Him, He will honor His Gift of Free Will — and it is mankind’s misuse of Free Will that takes the “good” that God put in every thing in His creation and “defiles” the natural good of God, it is God that made all things “Good” but is is mankind that uses God’s Gift of Free Will to defile the “Good of God” — we see why in Genesis at the very beginning of all things that God looked on the emptiness and saw the need for “Light” to dispel the darkness and it was at that point God declared the “Light” as “Good” and then God separated the “Light” from the “darkness”. So if we see Jesus as only a “Teacher” then we will miss the “Lesson” because Jesus is “Teaching” with all His Questions that there is in our lives God’s Truth and that “God’s Truth must be lived to truly be learned” … every “Lesson” that impacts our “soul” only comes from the Creator of our soul, and that is God. Man has produced many teachers and they have taught many lessons but only God is the “Master Teacher” and the “Lessons” He Teaches are from God and are of God and it is because God is the Creator of all “understanding” and our “soul” that we can actually learn the Truth of God — so when we contemplate the “Questions” Jesus asks, we must endeavor to “learn” from the viewpoint that it is God prodding our understanding to impart His Wisdom to us that we might have “abundant life” that can only come from God Himself ——— so when we consider it is God using the terms “faithless and perverse generation” and then He asks “how long shall I be with you?” (Matthew 17:17) that we should look very intently at these words as the very “Words of God” and get serious about learning the “Lesson” He desires to impart to us. Doesn’t it make good sense that it is God calling mankind out on being “faithless and perverse” and then turns right around and warns us that there is a time limit (“how long”) for Him to “…bear with [us]…”? We must consider first that it is God Himself asking us a serious Question and we should stop and give our full attention to being able to answer God honestly and look forward with “Hope” to learning God’s Lessons about being “Faithful and holy”!!!