Monday 1 Apr 2013

Monday Reading: John 5:45-47

Key Verse: John 5:45
45  Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

Devotion:
How many times have you come across people who are more willing to uphold what other people say than to do what is actually right? I call them “jobs worth” people because they tend to do things because they think that keeping their job is worth more than doing the right thing. There are many people like that nowadays but there were also many people like that in the days of Jesus where they would uphold what they had been taught about the Law instead of actually studying what was right and upholding the truth!

Jesus always wants us to study things through and to do what is right. When He cleaned out the temple of all the rogue traders and other merchants He did so in what some may think of as a contentious way; He kicked them all out of the temple because they were no longer treating the temple like God’s house! But that was the right thing to do – not to ignore it like everyone else but to stop and do what is right!

God has given us the law and we need to stick to it. That does not mean that we have leverage to be able to change it until it suits us, but to believe the actual law as it is written down in the original scripts. It is that same law that teaches us that Jesus was going to come hundreds of years before He actually arrived as a human being. It is that same law that teaches us that God is our Creator and that we are the sinners who got things wrong. Just because we don’t like what the bible says about ourselves does not mean that we can ignore the truth and make up our own stories!

If we are not going to believe in the original writings then how are we ever going to believe the truth when it slaps us in the face? God wants us to know the truth, but that means that we have to accept the whole truth and not just the parts that we are comfortable with. Moses may have been the one that God gave the Ten Commandments to, but it has been a whole succession of prophets that have brought us God’s law over the years. Each one reinforcing what has been told before and bringing us more understanding. If we do not accept God’s Word as the truth from the beginning to the end, then we are facing Jesus and saying that we do not fully trust in Him either!

Points to Ponder:
Are you a “jobs worth” person?

Or are you upholding God’s laws?