Monday Reading: Luke 20:27-38
Key Verse: Luke 20:38
38 For He is not God of the dead, but of the living. For all live to Him.
Devotion:
One thing that we can count on is that God does know the answers before we start to get ourselves confused. When we start to try and reason things through with logic or science we get ourselves into a right pickle as we try to make human sense of Godly matters – I’m sorry but that is just never going to work! It is a very common thing to try to undermine things of God because that way man can have some sort of excuse not to follow God’s law and not to be bound by the truth that is in His Word.
Man likes to think that He is in charge and that He knows the answers. Man likes to think that He can make his own world in which he can live, lifting up his own rules and laws that he has surmised as being true... unfortunately for us we do not know the whole truth. When the Sadducees confronted Christ with their own little logic problem they sought to trip His law up so that they could make their own rule instead – what they did not expect is to have their ideas debunked and made to look like fools...
God is not just a god of the world or a god of the dead but our God of everything. God is all knowing and all sufficient. There is nothing that our God cannot do or does not know. There is nothing that has been left unplanned; despite our earthly ways which we think are either random or ordered, God’s ways are the only ways because He has already planned things for us. Yes we do have choice as to how we influence His ways but He already knows our thoughts and continue to plan things for each one of us. He is our Living God looking after us as we live. He is not waiting for us all to die so that He can then do something with our souls... He is trying to guide our souls right here and right now – we are the ones not listening! We cannot come up with our own rules as being better than God’s law because He already knows our faults. We have ways here on earth that suit us when we live here on earth and He has given us laws through which we can live an abundant life on earth – but when we go to be with Him afterward we will no longer be bound by our earthly ways...
Points to Ponder:
What rules do you find ridiculous?
Are you looking forward to the freedom from mans rules in heaven?
