Saturday 6 Feb 2010

Saturday Reading: 1 John 5:19-21
 
Key Verse: 1 John 5:20
20  And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the everlasting life.

Devotion:
It will be a very sad day when we get to meet Christ. Not sad for us because we will know that we will be safe for eternity, but sad for our friends and relatives who do not know God; even for our enemies. I’m sure that if we knew the full extent of what hell would be like that we would not even wish that on our enemies never mind those close to us! The line does have to be drawn and it will one day be drawn by God. After that time nothing will ever be the same and then those who do not know God will begin to realise that what has been said for so many years was and is the actual truth.

He has given each one of us an inner understanding about what is right and what is wrong. Those instincts are born in us and not bred into us. Yes we do learn a whole lot more as we grow up and as our parents and teachers try to teach us, but that inner understanding between right and wrong is what God Himself planted within us. But it is that inner understanding that is pushed into a corner because we don’t want to admit that we do things wrong. It is that understanding that we bury deep inside us so that we can go out and “enjoy ourselves like others do”. But if truth be told, all those enjoyments do have a price to pay; one that we don’t like to think about.

It is the extreme example that Christ showed for us that should be guiding us in our daily walk. It is the fact that He had to go to such lengths just to prove that what has been said is the truth that should shake us up and make us think about what we do in our lives. It is everything like that that Christ tries so that we will come back to God. It is He who leads us back to God but we have got to be the ones who are willing to seek Him too. We have to be the ones willing to reach out for His Word and take it in so that we too can know the truth.

Points to Ponder:
What do you like doing most of all?
 
Is that lifting up God or yourself?