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 the “heavens”
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)
