Today’s
devotion Friday 22nd March 2013
Palm Sunday will be here in two days, and churches celebrate
it in different ways
Sometimes it’s good to let the truths of Scripture just wash
over us and speak to us.
The Holy Spirit can use God’s Word to quietly comfort us with
His presence and peace. Meditating on
the simple truth and comfort of God’s Word as we thoughtfully read it can be
unusually refreshing. Slowly and thoughtfully read this message and allow God to speak to your
life
God created us to
have unending fellowship with him, peace with our fellow man, harmony and joy
within our family relationships, and to have dominion over the world in which
he placed us. God equally gave us the gift of Choice. We can choose to follow
Gods way or to go another way.
This choice of
selfishness as lead to our earthly death, no peace with our fellow man,
disharmony and sadness within our family relationships, and lack of proper care
of the world in which he placed us. Because of this, our future has changed to
one of eternal separation from fellowship with God after death, completely
without hope of joy or peace. But through the blood of the lamb that was shed
on Calvary we have hope to face tomorrow with courage and boldness
The Bible goes on to record how God provided the remedy for
our chosen path of selfishness. He came to us in the form of his son Jesus
Christ we can find this in John 1:14. This son lived a life of fellowship,
peace, harmony, and joy in full fellowship with God. Though innocent of any
wrongdoing, he voluntarily allowed himself to suffer and die as a guilty
lawbreaker, and received upon himself the full penalty of our selfishness by
death on a cross. God in the book of Philippians 2:5-11 tells us in our relationship with one another, have the same mindset as
Christ Jesus Who, being in very nature God did not consider equality
with God something
to be used to his own advantage rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very
nature
of a servant, being made in human likeness. And
being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by
becoming obedient to death even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that
is above every name, that
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and
under the earth, and every tongue acknowledges that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
The wonderful
conclusion recorded in the Bible is that this Jesus rose from the dead and
returned to God. He is forever our representative before God. He enables us
today to enjoy fellowship with God, peace with our fellow man, harmony and joy
within our family relationships, and to exercise proper dominion over this
world in which he has placed us. We need only to pray and ask him to come in
and rule in our hearts and lives.
Simply talk to God and say, "Thank you, God, for loving
me and sending your Son to die on the cross for my sins. I now choose to make
Jesus the Lord of my life. Help me to be the kind of person that you
want me to be. In Jesus' name, Amen."
You've made the most important decision you will ever make in
your life. Jesus said, "If anyone comes toward me, I will not turn him
away." He will be your answer to your questions on life's journey
