Yesterday’s message
was titled “THE LIFE-GIVING MEAL”. Today’s message is
titled “THE INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD” as
provided by Pastor E. A. Adeboye in Open Heavens Devotional (Adeboye, 2014). In
today’s message, we have been asked to memorise Mark 13:31:
"Heaven and earth shall pass away but My Word shall not pass
away". Today's reading is from Mark 14:27-31 and the
Bible in one year reading for today has been taken from Jeremiah
27:1 to Jeremiah 29:23 and Psalm 51.
Quoted below is the
message for today. God bless you richly for your contribution.
"The underlying
lesson from the encounter of Peter with the Lord Jesus Christ in today's Bible
reading is that whatever the Lord says shall come to pass. It is therefore
pertinent to take note of all (prophesies of Jesus Christ as they affect the
cosmic world and beyond. Surely, they shall come to pass. There was a story of
a mad man who was fond of collecting alms, especially food items, by force.
With his plate in his left hand, he would raise a cutlass in his right and and
say to the prospective donor, If you think it won't be and it is, what would
you do?” In other words, ”if you think I can't cut off our head and I do; what
would you do?” The fellow would quickly drop some food in his plate and he
would walk away. He targeted mostly market women. One day, a woman dared this
lunatic and said, ’’I won't give you anything today; you can do your worst”. In
anger, the lunatic landed a stroke of his cutlass on her head. But for
providence which helped her to slightly dodge the cutlass, the lunatic would
have beheaded her. Only her right ear was chopped off. The whole market was
thrown into pandemonium. Beloved, if the lunatic made good his threat, what do
you think of the words of the One who commanded the heaven and the earth to be
and they were? It is fool hardy to think that the words spoken by the mouth of
the Almighty God and His Christ will not come to pass. When He says the wages
of sin is death — Romans 6:23, you better believe it before it is too late.
When our Lord Jesus
Christ was speaking with His disciples of old on what was about to happen in
relation to them deserting and denying Him, they could not comprehend any
situation that would make them deny the Master. As seen in this case of the
disciples, at times, children of God assume they are more knowledgeable than
their Father. The Lord knew what would happen. He told them, but they could not
believe such a thing could happen to them. Momentarily they forgot that they
were dealing with the Word of God who became man. On few occasions like this
one in our Bible reading today, they took Him and His words as words from an
ordinary mortal.To us His disciples today, the Lord said this through His holy
angels in Acts 1 :11:
”. . . . this same
Jesus, which is taken up from you in to heaven, shall so come in like manner as
ye have seen him go into heaven.”
Our attitude
towards God's demand for holiness will become positive if we believe that Jesus
is coming back to judge the quick and the dead (2 Timothy 4:1). "
Today's action
point is to Make up your mind that you will believe and act according to
every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord, as
well as the written words of the Holy Scriptures.
Today's action
point is very important to our spiritual growth. As we proceed on our daily
activities today, let's think about this before taking any step. "Are my actions glorifying the
One that has created me, and made me to show forth His glory?" God bless you all. have a
fruitful day in Jesus name. Amen.
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