LISTEN TO HIM: Devotion for Thursday October 15, 2015

LISTEN TO HIM            Thursday October 15, 2015 

Text: Luke 9:28 – 36        Memory verse: v 35

There are some things we are expected to do when we repent as our text reveals. Why must we hear from God? He is the author of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). He knows and holds our future and without Him we cannot do anything meaningful (John 15:5). He directs the affairs of men. He is our hope (1 Timothy 1:1). We can only excel with the gifts he bestows on us. It will be totally absurd for one to undermine the words of our Lord. For this reasons the voice of God came to affirm the status of Jesus and the importance of abiding by what He says (Deuteronomy 8:15 and Acts 3:22). The voice requested for reverential and implicit obedience to Christ. 

We cannot face the challenges of life on our own alone. Every day we are confronted with diverse challenges that can even pull our legs off the track of Christian race. We see many things that frighten us. When all these come, our only source of consolation is the word of God. We hear from God mostly from his word, through gift of revelation and dreams. Hearing from God will make us more successful, grant us more wisdom, make us more discreet, secure our protection and guard us in all endeavours.

Food for Thought: It is one thing to listen and another to obey.

Prayers: God, grant me the wisdom to listen and obey your word always.

TOTAL SUBMISSION

TOTAL SUBMISSION         Wednesday July 22, 2015

Text: Matthew 26:36 – 41      Memory verse: v 39

Jesus submitted Himself in Garden of Gethsemane (Suffering), to the will of God, from which man had revolted in a Garden of Eden (Pleasure). Christ took with him into that part of the garden where He suffered His agony, only those who had witnessed his glory in his transfiguration (v 37). They were best prepared to suffer with Christ, because they have beheld His glory. Jesus told them what He was passing through and had expected them to pray with Him (v 38, 39). Unfortunately they slept off maybe out of tiredness, spiritual weakness or laxity. When God wakes you up to pray or lays it in your heart to pray, do you pray or you sleep off?

Jesus humbly submitted to the Father’s will. He went ahead with the mission for which he had come. Jesus expressed his true feelings as a human being, but he was not denying or rebelling against God’s will. He reaffirmed his desire to do what God wanted. How submissive are you to God’s will for your life? Remember there is no short cut to heaven. It is total submission or not.

Food for Thought: How submissive are you to God’s will for your life?

Prayer: Your will is the best for me. Let your will be done in my life, O Lord.