MAY 09 THE JESUS QUESTIONS
JQ#15 “O you of little faith, why do you doubt?”
(Matthew 14:31)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, You are the One that Loves us. Jesus help us to understand
that Your Love is not based on who we are or what we do but the
Love of God is based solely on the character of The One True God
and who HE IS and what HE DOES.
God is the giver of Free Will and God Himself said
that LOVE is not what others do to you,
but what you do to others ———
and we are to LOVE based not on what others do to us
but what we chose to do to others,
we can either go the way of the world and take-take-take
or we can follow God and give-give-give.
Help us Lord to attain “heavenly perfection” in that we choose
to be like You and Love others unconditionally.
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus has been faithful in Teaching us that
“faith in God” is as important to our “spiritual” life
as “air” is to our “physical” life.
Jesus has been Living the Perfect Example in front of His disciples and
they have heard His Teachings and have seen His Miracles and
the only conclusion that everyone reaches is
that “all these things”
that Jesus has been Teaching and accomplishing
by His Miracles
must be from God!
Jesus has been asking specific Questions that focus our attention
like a laser beam on the areas in our faith that needs to be improved upon
and as we saw in
JQ#14, Jesus wants to make sure that we
“understand all these things”
and the only reason we can use to explain why Jesus
would Teach in the Power of God,
perform Miracles in the Power of God,
and then make sure that we “Understand” the Power of God
is that Jesus wants us to have “spiritual success”
that comes ONLY from the Power of God!!!
Therefore, Jesus never stops Teaching and He uses Questions to make us
think on the Kingdom of Heaven and then He answers them plainly,
He uses parables and then Jesus explains these Thought Questions clearly,
but more importantly
Jesus “Lives” His Life Perfectly so that everyone can see
that “Faith in God”
is to be used 24/7/365 in the way we live our daily lives.
Jesus had just Taught the multitudes in parables but now Jesus
“had finished these parables” and “He departed from there”
(Matthew 13:53) .
We read that “When He had come to His own country,
He taught them in their synagogue,
so that they were astonished…”
(Matthew 13:54)
and it is at this point that we get a glimpse of why Jesus starts
JQ#15 with the statement, “O you of little faith…”
for even though the people were simply “astonished” by His Teaching,
they could not get over their “spiritual blindness” and were proving
what Jesus had previously Taught that the
“unbelievers”
would have
“eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear”
(Matthew 13:14)
and the disciples could now see that
without “understanding”
that we are blind and deaf to the “Spiritual Truth of God”.
Jesus also had Taught about “fear and faith” once before when the
disciples were out on the sea in a boat when a great storm had arisen
and Jesus was sleeping in the back of the boat and when His disciples
woke Him up, Jesus had asked
JQ#7 “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?”
(Matthew 8:26)
After Jesus had gotten their attention
with the storm and the “fear” Question,
Jesus calmed the wind and the waves
and probably went back to sleep.
We find Jesus still Teaching His disciples that
if we follow Jesus
we will should always be learning from Him
because He is always Teaching and
Jesus always goes the second mile
and makes sure we
“understand His Spiritual Lessons”
— even if that means that we have to be Taught
the same lesson several times to truly
“understand”!
In this case Jesus is Teaching an advanced course on “Faith in God”
and this time He will point out that our “little faith” will cause us to “fear”
and Jesus Teaches us that “little faith” is the root of all our “doubt”
because the logical conclusion of “doubt” is “fear”!
Therefore Jesus is going to give His disciples several extra lessons
on building our faith and also Jesus will expose that
the root cause of a weak faith
is allowing ourselves to “doubt” God!
This first example happens in His “own country” and the disciples see
a previous lesson coming to life as the people in His “own country” doubt
that Jesus is really God because they knew the names of
His earthly (physical) mother, brothers, and sisters so
they must have missed Jesus proclaiming that
“whoever does the will of My Father in heaven
is My brother and sister and mother.”
(Matthew 12:30)
The scriptures tell us that all those
stuck on the “physical” realm have missed the
“Spiritual Truth”
that
Jesus IS the Son of God
and that
“they [are] offended at Him”
(Matthew 13:57)
The results of their
“doubt” (unbelief)
is that they actually prevented Jesus
from using the Power of God among them as we read,
“Now He did not do many mighty works
there [in His own country]
because of their unbelief”
(Matthew 13:58)
Jesus is illustrating why it is important that we spiritually
“understand”
because
where there is no “understanding”
there is “doubt”
and our “unbelief”
is the worldly fruit of our “doubt and fear” !
Jesus is continuing to Teach us with every occasion that
building our “Faith” on the “Solid Rock”
is our best defense against the storms of life
and will open the door to His Blessings in our life!
Have you ever stopped and asked yourself,
“What blessings have I missed
because of my own ‘unbelief’” ?
