Sunday Reading: Luke 13:1-3 Key Verse: Luke 13:3 3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Devotion: We have some pretty strange ways of looking at the world and what happens in the world. When we see something bad happen we always want to be able to blame something or someone else for what has happened. We don’t like to think that bad things just happen because that leaves us open to those same bad things. When Jesus was trying to show people that they were sinners, He used the example of the oppressive authority of the Romans to show then that when they dare to do anything against God, they can expect an appropriate punishment. Just because we do not look at ourselves as being such great sinners does not mean that we are going to get away with a word of warning when the final judgement comes. We will get the punishment due to us as described by God and we certainly will not like that! So blaming others for sin, blaming others for discomfort, blaming others for almost anything is not what God wants us to be doing. He would rather that we look at our own lives and get things right starting with ourselves. Once we have ourselves back on the right track then we can reach out to others and invite them in too. The world is a very different place to what is was when Jesus walked amongst the Jews. People live very different lives to what they did back then. It is not just the fact that Jesus paid the sin debt we owe that has changed the world but the way that people are. Yes we still have many of the same faults but society has gone far beyond the corruption that was seen back then and is now blaming each other for things that happen. We need to move away from the blame culture and start by showing people a bit of God’s love. When we can rise above the sin by trusting in Christ to lead us in His ways then we can start to show people why Christ did what He did for all of us. We can then show them that we are fully trusting in Christ for our salvation and that it is a solid anchor onto which we hold. But far better than that, He has a firm grip on us and we can grow in Him because of that! Give Christ the glory for all that He has done so that we do not get trapped into blaming others for what we do! Points to Ponder: Do you blame others when they fail? Where were you when they needed help?
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 02:41:52 +0000
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