Thursday Reading: Hebrews 5:7-8
Key Verse: Hebrews 5:8
8 though being a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
Devotion:
How amazing it is to know that God sent His Son into this world to be born as a human being so that He could live with us, die for us and be raised from the grave to show us that we too will have a perfect resurrected body someday too! But today I want to look at Jesus as being a human being, someone’s Son. Yes I know that being the Son of God is unique but the very fact that He was someone’s Son means that He had someone to look up to and call His Father. In doing so He had someone to obey and someone to learn from; and that He did in ways that give us hope and encouragement knowing that we too can lift up our prayers and God will answer!
Throughout His ministry Christ continued to set aside time for prayers and made His requests know to God. You may ask why He should have to do that because He was God; but in order for us to know just how important prayer is, Christ spent a lot of time in prayer, speaking with God and waiting for answers from Him. We need to remember that and know that we too are human and that we too have to lift up our prayers constantly to God. We too have to remember that we must wait on God for the answers to those prayers too. Trust Him because Christ has shown us that prayers do get answered!
Christ had the power to be able to do anything and yet He chose to be as human as He was so that we could learn that prayer was a very powerful thing! Christ could have prevented His own death and could have wiped us all off the face of the earth – yet He chose to give His life up for us and to show us that He loved us. He chose to show us about obedience to our parents and obedience to God our heavenly Father. He chose to use His suffering as an example through which we can learn about true obedience. Let us not try and force His hand but rather to lift up our prayers and be obedient to Him, waiting for His faithful words to come back to us.
Points to Ponder:
How often do you pray?
Do you ask from your heart or from a script?
Key Verse: Hebrews 5:8
8 though being a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
Devotion:
How amazing it is to know that God sent His Son into this world to be born as a human being so that He could live with us, die for us and be raised from the grave to show us that we too will have a perfect resurrected body someday too! But today I want to look at Jesus as being a human being, someone’s Son. Yes I know that being the Son of God is unique but the very fact that He was someone’s Son means that He had someone to look up to and call His Father. In doing so He had someone to obey and someone to learn from; and that He did in ways that give us hope and encouragement knowing that we too can lift up our prayers and God will answer!
Throughout His ministry Christ continued to set aside time for prayers and made His requests know to God. You may ask why He should have to do that because He was God; but in order for us to know just how important prayer is, Christ spent a lot of time in prayer, speaking with God and waiting for answers from Him. We need to remember that and know that we too are human and that we too have to lift up our prayers constantly to God. We too have to remember that we must wait on God for the answers to those prayers too. Trust Him because Christ has shown us that prayers do get answered!
Christ had the power to be able to do anything and yet He chose to be as human as He was so that we could learn that prayer was a very powerful thing! Christ could have prevented His own death and could have wiped us all off the face of the earth – yet He chose to give His life up for us and to show us that He loved us. He chose to show us about obedience to our parents and obedience to God our heavenly Father. He chose to use His suffering as an example through which we can learn about true obedience. Let us not try and force His hand but rather to lift up our prayers and be obedient to Him, waiting for His faithful words to come back to us.
Points to Ponder:
How often do you pray?
Do you ask from your heart or from a script?