SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/1/2021 11:57 AM
My Worship Time Focus: “Jesus
Was Accessible”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew 9:18
Message of the
verse: “18
While He was saying these things to them, a synagogue official came and
bowed down before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died; but come and
lay Your hand on her, and she will live.’”
I believe that the second thing that
brought this man to Jesus was his faith as he believed Jesus had the power to
do what he asked Him to do for his daughter, that is raise her from the
dead. Now as far as we know Jesus had
not yet performed a resurrection miracle as yet, so that makes his faith even
greater. We have seen many ways Jesus
healed people, including casting out demons from them, giving sight to the
blind and other miracles that must be done in order to show that He was the
Messiah that the OT prophets and Psalmists wrote about. The man said to Jesus “Com lay Your hand on
her, and she will live.”
We saw when Jesus heard the faith of
the Centurion that He marveled over it, but I think this man’s faith was even
greater as this man believed Jesus could raise his daughter from the dead. In the famous story of Jesus raising Lazarus
from the dead we can see that this man’s faith was even greater than Martha who
said that if Jesus had gotten there sooner that she could have healed her
brother. Lazarus was dead for four days,
but there is coming a time, and I believe it to be soon when those whose bodies
have been dead for 2000 years will have them raised at what is called “The
Rapture,” something that I have been looking forward to since I first became a
believer in January of 1974.
What I have been so thankful to
better understand is that of the accessibility of Jesus as He was there with
the people, He even wore Himself out ministering to the people healing their
diseases and raising their family and friends from the dead. Jesus was not a religious guru surrounded by
servants to do His every bidding, now was He a monastic who removed Himself
from the life and activities of ordinary people. Jesus, the Son of God, was accessible to the
people, especially those with faith in Him.
Look
at some verses that speak of this subject:
“And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory,
glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John
1:14). “5 Have this attitude in
yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a
bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled
Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross”
Phil. 2:5-8).
John
MacArthur concludes this section: “Almost
everywhere Jesus went, He was in the midst of a crowd, because the people would
not let Him alone. Among those crowds
were three kinds of people—the critical and resentful religious leaders,
especially the self-righteous scribes and Pharisees; the curious and
uncommitted onlookers who saw Jesus only as a powerful, authoritative, and
fascination contrast to those religious leaders; and the guilty, hurting,
desperate people who came to Jesus for help from sin, sickness, and
tragedy. These people asked Jesus their
deepest questions and brought to Him their profoundest needs, because He
listened, cared and acted in their behalf.
The Creator of the universe, the Master of the world, the King of kings
and Lord of lords was not too busy to stoop in mercy to serve His creatures.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Hallelujah
What A Savior!
My Steps of Faith for Today: I trust the Lord to bring those to our
revival prayer meeting whom the Spirit of God desires to be there and leads
there.
6/1/2021 12:23 PM
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