MARCH 01 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#07 “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” (Matthew 8:26)

 

MARCH 01  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

  JQ#07 “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” 

(Matthew 8:26)

LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer

JESUS, Lord I come before You this morning renewed and refreshed

 in Your Spirit and I praise You for Your Love. Lord, we deserve punishment 

but You Lord bore our sins and iniquities on 

THE CROSS AT CALVARY WHERE YOU DIED AND BECAME 

THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE FOR ALL SIN. 

Through Your Great Sacrifice our sins have been paid in full. 

Lord I know that I am not worthy of Your Love and that my unworthiness

 has been substituted by Your Righteousness and in the Father’s eyes I am

 an heir to the Kingdom because of what was accomplished by You, God,

 and the Holy Spirit on Resurrection Sunday — I pray that every day I will

 awake and arise to face the world and that I will keep full in my mind

 that You ARE RISEN victorious over the world and that You 

will walk with me every step of my Journey to Truth!    

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS 

JESUS in JQ#07 has begun Teaching the Importance of “Faith in God” 

in our daily lives and the Ultimate Importance of “Faith in God” for 

our Eternal lives!!! Our “Faith in God” cannot  become “sight” 

unless we understand that without the “Light of Jesus” we will remain

 blind and in darkness — for until we are “born again into the light” that the world is

 “without form, and void; and darkness” (Genesis 1:2) covers our daily lives.

 When Jesus asks a Question, He is challenging us to use our God-given

 intellect to open our spiritual eyes and exercise our

 “trust” in God’s Infinite Knowledge.

 In JQ#07 Jesus ties together two terms “fearful” and “faith” and His use

 of these two terms in such close proximity should get our attention.

 When I stopped and re-read the Question trying to see the “Sublime Obvious”,

 I was rewarded by seeing that Jesus asked the “Question” but He also

 gave the “Answer” while asking the “Question”!  The “Divine Obvious” that

 came to me was to look at JQ#07 in two parts but keeping them tied 

together like this:

 Part A (the Question) “Why are you fearful” and

 Part B (the Answer) “O you of little faith”. (Matthew 8:26a)  

The Question is about being “fearful” and He answers His Question 

by directing our attention to our “faith”. 

Jesus puts the Question and the Answer together because He does not

 want us to over-think ourselves and therefore He makes it clear that we must grow our

 “Faith in God” 

if we desire NOT to be “fearful”. 

There is no other way to grow our “faith” without “Trusting God” and if we

 do not see God’s “Divine Obvious” world with our “spiritual” eyes we will

 not Trust God — and if there is no “Trust in God” then our lives will be

 lived in “fear” of the world that we see with our “physical” eyes! I believe

 it is of great importance in our “Spiritual Growth” that we acknowledge

 the “Divine Obvious” thing God did to address the problem of darkness

 in His Creative process — for in Genesis 1:3 the first SOLUTION spoken

 BY GOD in the new Creation was “Light” which God introduced

 into His newly created earth TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM that the earth was

 “without form and void” and was immersed in “darkness”. 

(Genesis 1:2a) 

The only source of power God employed was 

“the Spirit of God” (Genesis 1:2b) 

and He demonstrated the Spiritual Power of God when in the next verse we read:

 “Then [after recognizing the emptiness and darkness] 

God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light 

[problem solved by the Spirit of God!].” (Genesis 1:3)  

From these first three verses we see that God assessed the negative

 aspect of creation which is “lack of purpose” and “darkness” and solved

 the problem with  “the Spirit of God” speaking the solution with

 “let there be light.  — then — 

{through the Miracle of God’s Holy Spirit} “And there was light” . 

Just as God saw “darkness” as the problem and “light” as the solution,

 Jesus saw “fear” as a problem and “Faith in God” as the solution 

and the answer to all our questions and fears should be

 to focus our “spiritual eyes” on Jesus. 

Jesus told the most intellectual “Pharisee” of his generation named Nicodemus

 (who admitted Jesus was from God but Nicodemus wanted to know

 what Jesus had come to teach?)  Jesus told Nicodemus,

 “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again

 he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3) 

and then Jesus made it perfectly clear that just as we have a “physical” birth

 into the world that we must have a 

“spiritual birth” to enter “the kingdom of God” 

when He tells Nicodemus:

 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh 

and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” 

(John 3:6) 

and in JQ#07 Jesus tells us to grow our “Faith in God” to calm our “fears” —

 therefore we should open our 

“Spiritual Eyes” 

to see the growth potential in what God accomplished 

in His Crowning Glory 

of Resurrection Sunday if we just “BELIEVE” in

 God’s Only Begotten Son Jesus who defeated death 

and the grave and offers Eternal Life through

 “FAITH IN GOD THE FATHER”! 

 

FEBRUARY 28  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

  JQ#07 “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?”

 (Matthew 8:26)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, All Glory and All Honor ARE Yours and Yours alone, for the best

 of men with the greatest of intentions ALWAYS fall short of Your Glory. Yes, 

every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that You are 

the LORD of lords and the KING of all kings. 

There is no one like JESUS, the Only Begotten of our Father in Heaven, 

who from the beginning of time had an appointment with suffering and death

 and this same Jesus gave up His Glory in Heaven, descended to earth, 

became flesh, met His Divine appointment at the exact moment in

 history God had predestined before the foundation of the earth to

 Raise His Only Begotten Son Victorious over death and the grave on

 the Third Day, never will another time in all eternity match the

 Matchless Moment of the Salvation for ALL  mankind as Jesus bore 

our iniquities on His Shoulders and died for our sins, the 

Perfect Sacrificial Offering of God the Father 

for the sins and iniquities of the world!   

 And NEVER will 3 words mean so much to so many as Jesus declared 

that GOD’S WORK of SALVATION IS COMPLETE — 

JESUS SPOKE THESE 3 WORDS FROM THE CROSS — 

“IT IS FINISHED” !!!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has raised two important topics for our consideration with JQ#07 and

 yesterday the Spirit led these writings to tie 

JQ#07 “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” (Matthew 8:26a)

 into Lessons from the Resurrection because how can one be fearful of

 our lives when “God has demonstrated His Love towards us 

that while we were yet sinners 

God sent His Son to be the propitiation of those sins” 

(Romans 5:8)  

which should also give us “great faith in God”!  

Today that example of “faith in God” will be expanded to give some

 specific details that teach us that God has done so many things

 to reveal His Greatness to us that we should never be fearful of neither

 life nor death — yet we overlook the obvious things God has done for us

 in providing for daily needs in our day-to-day lives and we still stand

 fearful of the world?!? Every chapter and verse in all 66 books of our 

Bible Teach us a Lesson on who God is and what is His intention for the world. 

Mankind however, from the Beginning has been deceived by the world 

and each one of us has had to face the reality that 

God proves Himself to be a Loving-Forgiving God that 

Demands Justice, and is Jealous of His Glory. 

But each and everyone of us that faces that reality is given the most 

valuable gift anyone could receive and that “pearl of great worth” is that 

we are all free to choose God and Trust Him or we can also choose not

 to believe that God is who He says He is — 

The “Pearl of Freewill” is that we are free to choose our own “God/god” - 

but we must accept the responsibility of taking care of ourselves if we 

choose to believe in a false god of our own imagination - which if 

we choose to not believe in God, 

then we are “casting our pearls before swine”!  

“Freedom of Choice” is the single greatest “test of faith” 

the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE will face!

 Let me give the most obvious reason that we should believe that God is 

who He says He is:  Our “little faith” is related back to Resurrection Sunday 

but has roots all the way back to Genesis 1:1-5. The first concept we can 

derive of God from His Word is from the very first verse in Genesis

 “In the beginning God created the heaven’s and the earth.” 

(Genesis 1:1)     

<<<<<<< The first characteristic of God is that He is the Creator (Provider)

 of everything that we have consciousness of, both in “heaven” 

and on the “earth”. What is overlooked about this passage is the obvious 

that if God “created” every thing “in the beginning” of all things, 

then God Himself was before the “beginning” and is Himself Uncreated. 

This is referred to by scholars as the “self-existence” of God. >>>>>>>    

Mr. A.W. Tozer wrote in his book “The Knowledge of the Holy” that

 “Aside from God, nothing is self-caused.” (Chapter 5 “The Self-Existence

 of God” pg.25) — Only the Creator of all things can establish the laws

 governing all things and has control of all things and therefore we 

should recognize the obvious that He who controls all things

 is “in control of all things”!!! 

 It is a simple concept, but JQ#07 exposes that fact that we overlook

 the obvious as we read in the Book of Matthew

“…Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea,

 and there was great calm.” 

(Matthew 8:26b). 

The significance of the fact that the disciples were in a storm yet Jesus Himself 

was asleep, and that when He awoke He immediately reprimanded His disciples

 in the boat with Him by asking them: “why are you fearful” (Matthew 8:26a)

 is, that after rebuking them about their “fear” of the world’s circumstances

 and their lack of “faith”,  Jesus turned immediately and addressed the source

 of their “fear” as “[Jesus] rebuked the winds and the sea” (Matthew 8:26b) !!! 

Only the Creator of all things controls all things

 and can take a “”storm” and produce “a great calm”. 

Think about all that God has done and documented in His Holy Word 

commanding us to “be anxious for nothing” 

and then answer the JQ#07 Question: 

“Why are you fearful?”  

Fear is of the world and worldly circumstances but PEACE comes only 

from the “Creator of the heavens and the earth” 

and He-Who-Controls-All-Things!! 

It is a “CHOICE” to “fear the world controlled by doctrines of men” 

or  to “have PEACE from the Creator of the Universe” — 

“Choose this day whom you will serve”!!!! 

(Joshua 24:15)