Devotion
for Tuesday August 13, 2019
Topic:
They Tested Him
Text: Matthew
16:1 – 4
The sect of Pharisees and Sadducee were opposed to each other in principles and in conduct; yet they joined forces
against Christ. They had to put aside all their differences because they wanted
to test Jesus.
This is how funny the devil and his
agents can be!
They desired a sign of their own
choice, despising the signs of healing the sick, and those that brought succour
and comfort to the less privileged (Luke 4:18 & 19). They sought for
something else to satisfy their curiosity by feigning a desire for evidence
that Jesus was the Messiah, but their real desire was to see Jesus make the
attempt to work miracle and fail, that they might betray and ruin Him.
It is hypocrisy, when we slight the
signs of what God have ordained by seeking for signs of our own devise.
However, Jesus knowing their persons countered them (Matthew 16:2 – 4).
Many people by their thought and
actions are testing God. Many are still in the church on the condition that God
will have to answer them and if He doesn’t answer them at a particular time,
they will stop serving Him.
Some people have given God conditions
that if He does not do what they desire, they will drop their bibles and stop
going to church.
Some people test God by getting
involved in things that got them entangled and thereafter, they started crying,
“God why?’
Beloved in Christ, do you test God?
Israelites tested Him and paid dearly for it (Psalm 95:9 – 11; Numbers 14:1 –
24). Don’t try it again.
Food
for Thought:
1 Corinthians 10:9
Memory
verse:
Matthew 16:1
Prayer: O Lord and
my God, grant me the grace that I will not tempt by my words and actions which
I will thereafter pay dearly for them.
