Saturday Reading: John 10:23-30
Key Verse: John 10:27
27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
Devotion:
No matter how many people heard Christ proclaim that He and God are one in the same there were, are and will continue to be those who doubt that fact. Why some doubt the truth we may not know but the fact is that they do. Just as Christ said to the Jews that came around Him at the time of the Feast of Dedication, you do not hear me because you are not mine. He was warning them that He did not yet know them because they refused to believe in Him. If we want to be in the number that Christ will call His Own, then we have to be in that number that believe on Him.
Instead of trying to find out the truth, the Jews around Him were looking for an excuse to be able to stone Him. They did not want to believe the truth so they were looking for an excuse to be able to blot what they did not believe out of their lives. What better excuse than to prove that He broke one of their own laws? It looks so fickle from the outside looking in, here they were trying to prove that Christ was breaking man’s laws when they were already breaking God’s Law! That is exactly what we continue to do; we try to find excuses not to believe so that we can do our own thing instead of bowing to God!
When we do bow down before God by believing in Christ and in Him then we are placing our souls firmly in His Almighty protection. There is no turning back from that protection because Christ has promised to keep us safe for eternity once we enter into His protection. The simple act of believing in Him places us firmly in His protection – permanently. Once we know Him we will never have to worry about being lost again; but that does not mean that we need throw caution to the wind and do anything we desire because that will not please Him!
Points to Ponder:
What excuses do you come up with?
Are you ready to live for Christ?
