When God Says …
“Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.” (John 8:54-56 KJV)
The Lord Jesus Christ, full of grace and truth, continues to engage His detractors with grace and truth. These people totally shut off any truth revealed to them, as their attitudes reveal. But, the Lord who is love and who came into this world for He so love the world and that the world may be saved (John 3:16), remained true to His mission to save them. He is our example not to give up. In spite of what ever challenges confronting us, being children of God and born again by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we must never give up sharing the truth of God's Words. As long as we are still here, the opportunity and the door to eternal life is open for anyone who has breath, to enter in by faith. Even these people confronting the Lord, for them the door was open, if only they believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, which some of them have done in secret.
Like our present-day global phenomenon of cancel culture, the Lord Jesus in His interaction with these religious people is reminding us not to compromise so to be embraced by them. Lest we be in a lie. In this world, nowadays, worldly and religious precepts are converging. They pressure the true believers in Christ Jesus, who have been re-born in Spirit, to accept their ungodly non Biblical notions and creeds about family, gender, climate and others. We must remain rooted in truth of God's Words. We are not to give in and be part of it, nor are we to hate them. Rather, we continue to share them with love the truth as the Lord Jesus did, from His holy and written Words, the Holy Bible. It is for the hope that all may be saved.
As it was from the start, the truth of God's Words remain. Abraham, the physical ancestor of these religious Jews confronting the Lord, believed. We must too, being spiritual heirs of Abraham in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:29). We sure are filled with gladness to see the Lord's resurrection from the dead to give us newness in life, as Abraham was. He saw it from a distance assuring him of Isaac's restoration to life. On his way to sacrifice 'his only son, Isaac', as God commanded, it is written: “On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.”” (Genesis 22:4-5 ESV)
And I say, AMEN!
Daily reflections by:
F. A. Frias
PFC Ministries
When God says... I say, AMEN! is a provocative reflection of the Lord's holy Word. It intends to challenge every seeker of truth to dig deep into the core of the Word of Life to point every being to Christ Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith, and to draw revelations for change, for nourishment and for strength of every soul.
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