Daily Devotion

April 14, 2006

Psa 119:120 KJV My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

How seriously do we take the Word?  How much do we believe it?

We are saved by grace, but lessons are learned through experience, sometimes, bitter experience.  Jesus also has a “No child left behind” program.  He pays for the tuition with His blood, and He makes sure to get from us the spiritual dividends of the lessons taught.  No matter what or how long it takes, we have to pass the grade, and He doesn’t grade on the curve, He only grades by the standard of the Word forever established in heaven (Psa 119:89).  But how much easier it would be if we would learn by learning and just believing the course text, rather by having to always experience it.  But like the Jews of old, we are not always able to believe by faith; we require a sign (1 Cor 1:22).

Oh how much trouble we would save ourselves from if we only had enough respectful fear of His Word; our sould would easily be convicted of sin big and small, just because “He said so”.  

And all the more, we would read in His words of the fate of the unsaved, and feel desperation for our friends and relatives; we would see ourselves as the proverbial Good Samaritan to our “neighbors” (Luk 10:36,37) in the whole world.

  “Oh my Lord, put in me a spirit of clear understanding and integrity towards your Word. Clear away the semantic fog of excuses, and the doctrinal confusions.  Let me once again see and understand Your words in their full values so that I may have proper respect unto them!”

2Pe 3:9-11 KJV  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.  (10)  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.  (11)  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness.

Patrick Lumbroso
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