Monday Reading: John 21:14-23
Key Verse: John 21:23
23 Then this saying went abroad among the brothers, that that disciple should not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him, He shall not die, but, If I desire that he remain until I come, what is that to you?
Devotion:
How selective is your hearing? We all like to think that we are good at listening and hearing instructions, but if truth be told and we were all to receive a bunch of instructions to do something, we may well all remember slightly different things. This is just because of the way that our brains work (or don’t). We use many different ways to remember things and because of that, we remember things in slightly different ways to others. Just what we do remember, though, is actually going to be down to what we want to remember more than anything.
I come across many things in my life and I chose not to remember certain things because I think I will not have to use them again, or I presume that I will always be able to look up the answer somewhere. Other things I read and remember thinking that it will be useful to know those things even though I may still be able to find them out in the same way as the things I choose to forget! I make choices as to what to remember.
God knows this is how we work because He is the one that created us! He knows that we will each chose to remember different things and some things that He wants us to remember, we may well chose to forget. When talking to Simon Peter He made sure that Simon Peter would remember to teach others by repeating it three times. There are many things that Christ repeats for us but we still continue to choose to forget them because we are not listening properly. And then there are things which we hear once and remember – but even there we sometimes remember those things incorrectly. When we go out to tell others of Christ we need to be sure that what we tell others is God’s Word and not our own; we can do that through making sure we read His Word...
Points to Ponder:
What sort of things do you like to remember?
Are you reading God’s Word enough to remember it?
