SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/22/2022 7:52 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Unbelief Blurs the Obvious”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 13:54
Message of the verse: “54 And coming to His home town He began
teaching them in their synagogue, so that they became astonished, and said,
"Where did this man get this wisdom, and these
miraculous powers?”
I remember a time when we were seeking a new Pastor
for our church and so in order to get some wisdom on what I should do I spoke
to a former Pastor that we had when I first came to this church years
before. The person who was seeking this
job had gone to our church for a long time, ever since he was a child. This was the issue that I had and so I
brought this up with our former Pastor using this section of verses. He said that it was wrong that the people of
Nazareth had felt the way that they did just because they thought that they
knew Jesus, and that certainly is a true statement. I think that you can compare Jesus going back
to His hometown with going to a class reunion from your high-school, as all
your friends know you and if you come back as a famous person then there would
be some wondering about how that person had made it big.
In
the case of Jesus, and this certainly is different because Jesus was the
Messiah, He did nothing wrong, nor could He do anything wrong. These people had tried to kill Jesus when He
first came back as we talked about in the previous SD, and although they were
not trying to kill Him this time they still could not realize “where then did
this man get all these things?” The
things they were talking about were His wisdom, and His ability to do great
miracles. It was all a matter of doing
research, which they did not do, for if they did they would have realized that
Jesus was indeed their Messiah. Instead
of thinking that the father of Jesus was a man, they could have asked about how
Mary became pregnant and listened to her answer and rejoiced that their Messiah
had come to their little town to be raised right before their eyes.
The
same is true today, as so very many people in our world today do not take the
time to research the truth about Jesus Christ, where He was born, the time that
He came into the world which was promised in many different OT passages,
including the great prophecy found in the 9th chapter of
Daniel. All the evidence of knowing who
Jesus is, is certainly found in the pages of Scripture, but there is another
way to find out about Him and that is in the way that the lives of people have
been changed after coming to Him and accepting the forgiveness that He offers,
through the death that He died, “For God so Loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son that whosoever believes on Him will have eternal life.”
One
of the reasons that I study the Bible and then post on my Blogs the things that
I learn is so people can see that they are in need of a Savior, that this
Savior has come into the World 2000 years ago and that after spending 30 years
on planet earth he spent several very cruel hours on a cross outside of
Jerusalem. In dying on that cross He
satisfied the wrath of God as He paid for our sins, but just knowing that is
not enough as one has to first of all realize that you are born a sinner and
that there is nothing that you can do about that on your own. Once you realize that then in order to be
saved you must accept the forgiveness that Jesus offered when He died on that
cruel cross for you some many years ago.
Just invite Jesus into your heart in order to be saved from your
sins. Jesus Christ will change your life
once you do that, and I can testify to that as He changed me once I became a
believer on the 24th of January 1974.
Lord
willing we will continue with this section from Matthew 13:54 in our next SD.
5/22/2022 8:24 AM
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