Reading: John 6
My Verse: "Then they said, What are we to do, that we may [habitually] be working
the works of God?
Jesus replied, This is the work (service) that God asks of you; that
you believe in the One Whom He has sent." (6:28,29)
That is all You ask of me - that I "believe in the One Whom He has sent."
Oh, Lord God, why do we complicate things so? It just all gets so muddled we become unable to see the clear simple truths of Your Word.
I think of all the church institutions down through the ages with their ever building volume of myriad rules, regulations, traditions, orthodoxies. The gospel message becomes lost in it all and awful atrocities are done in what is thought to be the name of You but it isn't You at all. Horrible things - the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, beheadings, burning at the stake, mass suicides (and this in our own "enlightened" country). People struggle to keep all the rules their church asks of them. By doing so they hope they make it into heaven.
I watched a TV documentary on people's ideas of getting into heaven. Most said, "I hope I am going there." or "I am trying to do what is right." Such uncertainty and the interviewer was asking most people as they were leaving their churches!
Lord God, all You ask of us is that we believe in Jesus, Your Son. Believe that He did come to earth. He did die on that awful cross for my sins. He did rise on the third day just as He said He would!
"For this is My Father's will and His purpose, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in and cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." (6:40)
"I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who believes in Me has eternal life." (6:47, 48)
Oh, to say with the confidence and surety of Peter. "And we have learned to believe and trust, and [more] we have come to know [surely] that You are the Holy One of God, the Christ (the Anointed One), the Son of the living God." (6:69)
Blessed Assurance!
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
My Verse: "Then they said, What are we to do, that we may [habitually] be working
the works of God?
Jesus replied, This is the work (service) that God asks of you; that
you believe in the One Whom He has sent." (6:28,29)
That is all You ask of me - that I "believe in the One Whom He has sent."
Oh, Lord God, why do we complicate things so? It just all gets so muddled we become unable to see the clear simple truths of Your Word.
I think of all the church institutions down through the ages with their ever building volume of myriad rules, regulations, traditions, orthodoxies. The gospel message becomes lost in it all and awful atrocities are done in what is thought to be the name of You but it isn't You at all. Horrible things - the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, beheadings, burning at the stake, mass suicides (and this in our own "enlightened" country). People struggle to keep all the rules their church asks of them. By doing so they hope they make it into heaven.
I watched a TV documentary on people's ideas of getting into heaven. Most said, "I hope I am going there." or "I am trying to do what is right." Such uncertainty and the interviewer was asking most people as they were leaving their churches!
Lord God, all You ask of us is that we believe in Jesus, Your Son. Believe that He did come to earth. He did die on that awful cross for my sins. He did rise on the third day just as He said He would!
"For this is My Father's will and His purpose, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in and cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." (6:40)
"I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who believes in Me has eternal life." (6:47, 48)
Oh, to say with the confidence and surety of Peter. "And we have learned to believe and trust, and [more] we have come to know [surely] that You are the Holy One of God, the Christ (the Anointed One), the Son of the living God." (6:69)
Blessed Assurance!
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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