Monday 28 May 2018

May 28: Acts 13:32-37

Key Verse: Acts 13:37
But the one whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

Devotion:
The resurrection of Christ is the one great proof we have that Christ was and is the Son of God. Death was the means by which He was able to achieve so much, and death could not hold Him back because He was raised up from the dead before His body started to decay. For any normal human, the body starts to decay as soon as we die and it shows up by starting to smell around the third day. Christ’s body, on the other hand, did not get to see death for long enough to see any physical corruption.

He was the one who God is heaven above said of “This is My Son, the Beloved, hear Him.” He is the one who gave us the promises made from the times of King David which we can read so much about in our Bibles. He is the one who made sure we were given all of those promises. Even someone as great as David was buried and consumed by earthly things; yet Jesus Christ was able to raise Himself from the grave to give us the eternal hope that we have.

When we are born we have to learn to survive within the society which surrounds us; we have to work for those around us of the same generation. Christ was born and died for all generations from Adam and Eve through to the last man alive. We need to live up to that hope He has given us. We need to live by faith in all that He has accomplished at the cross. We need to trust in Him because He alone is our living God. He alone has the power to deliver on the promises made of old. He alone is the One to fulfil those promises as He has done all throughout history.

We have the oldest history books through to the promises of the future all held within our bibles. It is all the wisdom of God that we have to know in order to know Him. Once we get to know Him there is no turning back because once we accept Him, we can say we have joined Him in heaven already because that is what He has promised.

Points to Ponder:
What one thing stands out in history for you?

What one thing that Christ did stands out for you?