SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/12/2016 11:52 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-2 Comfort Comes
Form Trusting Christ’s Proclamation
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: John 14:4-6
Message of the verses: “4 "And you know the way where I am
going." 5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?"
6 Jesus said to him, "I
am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but
through Me.”
As we continue
to look at these very familiar verses we come to the realization that the Bible
teaches us that God may be approached solely through His only-begotten
Son. This is what Jesus is saying here
and we learn a similar thing from Acts 4:12 which says “"And there is
salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been
given among men by which we must be saved."” That name of course is the name of Jesus
Christ. There are other verses from the
Scriptures that teach this very same truth, a truth as I stated in our last SD
is not at all popular with people in the world who would say that there are more
than one way for us to get to heaven.
John MacArthur writes “The postmodern belief that there are many paths
to religious truth is a satanic lie. F.
F. Bruce writes, ‘He [Jesus] is, in fact, the only way by which men and women
may come to the Father; there is no other way.
If this seems offensively exclusive, let it be borne in mind that the
one who makes this claim is the incarnate Word, the revealer of the
Father. If God has no avenue of
communication with mankind apart from his Word…mankind has no avenue of
approach to God apart from that same Word, who became flesh and dwelt among us
in order to supply such an avenue of approach.’
“Jesus
alone reveals God, and no one who rejects His proclamation of the truth can
legitimately claim to know God. It was
because the early Christians taught that Jesus Christ is the only way to
salvation that Christianity became known as ‘The Way’ (Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23:22:4;
24:14, 22).”
Now as I
think about this truth and those who do not want to accept it I have to come to
the conclusion that their problem is that they want to become their own gods,
to do things like they want to do them, to make up things that fit their needs
and wants and not realize that God created everything that we see and many
things that we cannot see and it is all His, He owns it all and can do with it
what so ever He wants to do with it, including provide a way of salvation the
way He wants to provide it. God is so
very gracious in sending His Son to become a man to take our place on the
cross, to pay for our sins and the simple truth of it is that if we accept this
simple way that He has provided for us that we will be saved, and if we chose
to go our own way and not believe this way that He provided for us we will be eternally
lost, so the choice is up to us.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I am so thankful for the lovingkindness of
our God who sent His Son to take my place on the cross so that I can accept
that forgiveness that He has provided for me, and I will ever praise Him for
this.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Trust the Lord to give me
great understand and to keep me in His control as I have to get in front of our
church body to pray for our upcoming ministry which I have been a part of. I am thankful that the Lord has shown me what
I am to pray for and I desire for the Lord to give me the calmness of heart to
do what He is leading me to do, that it will all be done for His glory.
Memory verse for the week:
(Romans 6:16) “16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to
someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey,
either sin resulting to death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness.”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “Jacob” (Genesis 29:18).
Today’s Bible question:
“In what country was Paul and his companions burdened excessively,
beyond our strength?”
Answer in our next SD.
11/12/2016 12:17 PM
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