Weekly Witness: to know Jesus is to understand the father

My devotion nowadays, June 29, from Intouch Ministries was entitled “understanding the father through the Son.” It ended with these words: “therefore, if you are looking to comprehend and remember who God is, analyze Jesus â€" not simply within the Gospel money owed of his earthly life, but in the complete New testament. this is the finest option to be sure that you just don't seem to be deceived to your figuring out of him. Being confronted with actuality now could be tons more advantageous than discovering too late that you are following the wrong god.”

this text captured my attention. As I pondered on the opportunity of being self-deceived, to the vicinity one could follow a false God. I asked myself this question: “Why am I so bound that i do know my Father in heaven, and his Son, Jesus Christ?”

If i could share, as a younger girl, my existence experience had left me with a way of crushing guilt, grief, and despair. I discovered consolation by way of studying the Bible; evaluating how the references to the Jewish Messiah, who was coming to be a king for the Jewish nation, complemented the figure, Jesus of Nazareth, described within the New testomony. I didn't turn into a member of the Christian faith except i used to be 25 years historic.

I studied the Bible hours upon hours for six years. As a Jewish woman, I discovered lots of the old testomony stories kind toddlers’s books, as my Jewish grandmother raised us on Bible reports, akin to King David, Moses, Solomon and all their adventures. I grew to become convinced beyond doubt that the Jewish Messiah from the historic testament become one and the same as Jesus of Nazareth.

Born a Jewish boy in Bethlehem, the prophetic birthplace of the Messiah of the Jewish nation, in keeping with the Scripture text Micah 5:2. “but thou, Bethlehem, Ephratah, even though thou be little among the hundreds of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me it really is to be ruler of Israel; whose goings forth were from of ancient, from eternal” (KJV). How superb is that this. The everlasting King of the universe may be born a baby in Bethlehem; and we all recognize this to be accompanied unto this present day. All glory to God.

My adventure to God came to fruition once I walked right into a church and declared, “I should be saved and baptized as a result of that is what the Bible teaches." Glory, hallelujah? I did my half. I searched with my whole heart for so long as I vital to look. In that church before God and man, I declared: “I resign the realm, the flesh, and the satan. I make Jesus Christ of Nazareth the Lord of my existence. via his grace, I decide to serve him with my total heart. thank you, Jesus, in your love, grace and suggestions for my life. Amen.”

My expensive chums, how am i able to inform you the joy I skilled when my sins have been washed away? I felt like a newborn child. My toes didn’t contact the ground for a month. I loved every grownup, creature, insect on the earth. i was born again by using the Spirit of God. joy unspeakable and full of glory. In Romans 14:17, we examine: “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and pleasure in the Holy Ghost" (KJV).

beloved, understanding Jesus Christ, as our Lord, Savior, Healer, and Deliverer is the reply to lifestyles. I talk simplest actuality. Maranatha, oh Lord, come.

Sharon Marie Mays in an writer, Bible teacher, and reliable volunteer at Cherokee Elder Care.