Devotion Talk 1/8/08

Tonight I read John 6.

This chapter is a chapter of amazing feats of Jesus and miracles. He can do anything. It is a great point. But, there is one thing I want to really stress, and that is the lesson of verses 25-59. These verses tell that Jesus is the bread of life. If you eat of his bread you shall have eternal life! Do not chase material things! That is Satan’s bread of death! Feast on the truth of Jesus Christ! We can read the Bible, pray, and do anything possible to follow him. But there is one thing that we have to do. We cannot keep this all to ourselves. This wonderful life. The great joy of knowing will will be going to heaven and that we will see God face to face! We have to share our bread. Like the boy that brought the fish and bread, when we are done, everyone will be full of it, and it will feed many. We must share our great knowledge and faith with non-believers! They need Jesus! We need Jesus! WE ALL NEED JESUS! He loves us so much that he died for our sins!

 ” 51 ‘I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.’ “

Devotion Talk 1/4/08

Tonight I read John 3.

I love the first half of this chapter. It is about someone who doesn’t exactly understand what being born again is. Nicodemus asked Jesus and Jesus told him in verse 16. This is one of my favorite verses of the Bible. Jesus tells Nicodemus that God sent him, so that sinners may live. Seeing that Jesus hasn’t been crucified at the time, it would have been a bit confusing for Nicodemus, until Jesus told that he was the light that had come into the darkness, to set us free from the shackles and cordons of sin. Praise the Lord!

“16‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.’ “

I enjoyed the second half as well. John is living up to the fact that he came to prepare the way. He said that it was right that many were now following Jesus, as he only came to prepare the path, and tell people that the Savior was here! I love how all the promises in the Bible that are made by God, Jesus or someone sent by God are always kept. Our God never breaks his promises!

“30 ‘He must become greater; I must become less.’ “

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Devotion Talk 1/3/08

Tonight I read John 2.

I really enjoyed this chapter. It tells two great stories that tell many important facts that need to be known by everyone. The first story told is about Jesus turning water into wine. This message is point blank that Jesus and God can do anything. God can heal a person of deafness, muteness, or blindness. He can do anything:

“8Then he told them, ‘Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.’

They did so, 9and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10and said, ‘Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.’ “

When Jesus forces the merchants out of the temple, it shows that being angry is always sin, unless it is anger in someone who mocks God. These men had set up companies in a holy temple. Jesus was outraged and forced them out. Being angry at something petty is sin. But, this is not. Another thing in this is how Jesus foretells his death. He claims he will be brought down, but brought back in three days. I also enjoyed this part because it said that Jesus knew the way of men. This ties in with John one, when it says: “He was with God in the Beginning.” This chapter says in a sense that Jesus knows the ways of humans because he was their at the time of their creation.

“20The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?’ 21But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.”

Devotion Talk 1/2/08

Happy New Year!
Tonight I read John 1.

There is one major point I want to discuss. It shows up in verse two. Verse two reads:

“He was with God in the beginning.”

I do not know how anyone else interprets it, but I believe it says that Jesus was always with God. God had always had the plan of sending our Savior. He had Jesus with him, so when Jesus was born, he really in a sense wasn’t born, but born again in human form. Because of him, and God’s plan, we will also one day be born again, but not as humans, but in heaven. God has planned each and every one of our lives. God had a destiny for Jesus: dying for us, and has plans for us.

The second point I believe is shown by John the Baptist in this chapter. He refuses to be called Christ as he is not. He tells that God sent him to prepare the world for Jesus. I feel like all Christians must have gotten carried away while sharing faith. John however did not. He did not make himself a Christ figure. He wasn’t. But, we as believers in God sometimes feel like we’re superior to non-Christians, when we’re not. We’re all sinners. It’s something all Christians need to stop. We feel like we’re better that non-Christians, but if we believe this to be true, we’re worse.