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 present 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 own
“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 “rejection by God” is exactly what we will get!
God will respect our “choice”
and we will simply have to go through life without God
and that “Personal Freewill Choice” to reject God
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?”
