Monday 28 Oct 2013

Monday Reading: Matthew 11:25-26

Key Verse: Matthew 11:26
26 Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

Devotion:
Let us never forget that Christ is Lord of all! How easy it is to get carried away with science or physics and say how much we have learned and how much we know without realising that this is just a spec in the ocean compared to the things that Christ knows and has done for us! Our Lord Jesus may have come to earth as a human to be amongst us, He may have lowered Himself to our form, but He is still our creator and the one who sustains us.

I used to love learning about all the things of the world through science programs and programs which told of the modern technology that we use or are developing. I still do. But I am under no illusion as to who has made this all possible. Man has this need to feel important and to lift himself up; this is our sin nature welling up inside of us and not what God has created in us. Yes God wants us to be the best we can but He also wants us to know that this is all because of what He has done and not we ourselves.

A young child will normally listen to those around it so that it can learn as much as possible and as quickly as possible. But when that child is surrounded by evil people and evil ways, then they are going to grow up thinking those ways are normal until they can spot the difference between good and evil themselves. We need to allow God’s ways and His Word to spill out around us so that people will get to see His righteous ways and not just the corrupt ways of man.

Jesus always made sure that people knew that He was following His Father’s will and not doing His own will; they may be the same ways but as humans we would see things differently just as the Jews did. The Jews declared Christ to be a blasphemer because He dared to say that He is the Son of God and give out the truth. They would not accept the truth because they had learned their own ways and would not accept the truth when it stood before them.

Points to Ponder:
Are you depending on your own ways?

Will you accept Christ’s ways?