Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Manifest Your Sonship (Matt. 5:45)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/6/2020 9:58 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                           Focus:  Manifest Your Sonship

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matthew 5:45

 

            Message of the verse:  45  in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”

 

            If we love our enemies and pray for those who are persecuting us then we show that we are “sons of [our] Father in heaven.”  MacArthur writes “The aorist tense of genesthe (maybe) indicates a once and for all established fact.  God Himself is love, and the greatest evidence of our divine sonship through Jesus Christ is our love.  ‘By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another’ (John 13:35.  ‘God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him’ (1 John 4:16).  In fact, ‘If someone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen’ (v. 20).”

 

            When we love as God loves we realize that this does not make us sons of God, but this shows that a person already belongs to God.  When a life reflects God’s nature, and His nature is love, then it proves that life now possesses His nature by the new birth.

 

            I suppose that what the world looks at when they are looking at Christians is looking at something to criticize them for and one of the things that they will usually look at is our love, but because they don’t understand the Gospel what they criticize us for may not be truthful.

 

            When a believer is loving like they are taught in the Word of God then even if a person who sees them and know nothing about the Gospel, or Jesus will be able to see that there is something in that comes from a divine power.

 

            “Those who are God’s children should show impartial love and care similar to what God shows.  ‘He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.’  Those blessings are given without respect to merit or deserving.  If they were, no one would receive them.  In what theologians traditionally have called common grace, God is indiscriminate in His benevolence.  His divine love and providence in some forms benefit everyone, even those who rebel against Him or deny His existence.”

 

            As we come to the conclusion of the Spiritual Diary we want to look at Psalm 145:15-16 “The eyes of all look to Thee, and Thou dost give them their food in due time.  Thou dost open Thy hand, and dost satisfy the desire of every living thing.”  MacArthur adds “There is no good thing—physical, intellectual, emotional, moral, spiritual, or of any other sort—that anyone possesses or experience that does not come from the hand of God.  If God does that for everyone, His children should reflect the same generosity.”

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  Lord change my heart today, may it be like Yours and may my life bring glory to Your name.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  Continue to learn and continue to trust in the Lord to cause me to grow so that I can love as He loves.

 

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