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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Thursday, January 11, 2018
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-01-11-2018
This is devotional thought number 46 in our devotional series, God’s Promises are Sure!
“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” (Matthew 7:1–2).
Human beings do not have a heaven or hell to put you in. Have you ever heard that before?
I admit today’s passage may seem misplaced, considering this is a devotional thought about God’s promises. The passage underscores the need for us to shun hypocrisy and seeking to subvert heavenly government. Judgment belongs to God and is determined by Jesus Christ. Jesus, the Advocate for all who surrender to Him, and the Executor of God’s will against those who hate love, has all of the information. He knows what is in each of our hearts. The Holy Spirit has been moving and wooing us to bring us under subjection to His will, and to effect peace in our lives, but some will refuse His entreaties. His complete and eternal knowledge of all things is necessary to give just judgment. His assumption of human form and empathy to the human condition uniquely qualifies Him for the task. Jesus is judge; we are not. Full stop.
Here’s the promise, which is encased in a cautionary wrapper: If you (wisely) refuse to condemn others according to your faulty standards of righteousness, you will not be judged according to such a standard. If you choose to allow God to fulfil His sovereign role when it comes to others’ plights, you may have the same merciful God work on your behalf. If you resist the hypocrisy that follows in these verses, you will see clearly enough to stay in your lane and let God be God: “Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3–5, HCSB).
God’s standard of judgment is strict, but ours is faulty. By which of the two would you prefer to be judged? What if the same One who judges you in heaven also gave all to save you? I would rather be judged by the One who loves me and has all the evidence, which He handily expunges when we accept Him by faith. How about you?—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Thursday, January 11, 2018
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-01-11-2018
This is devotional thought number 46 in our devotional series, God’s Promises are Sure!
“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” (Matthew 7:1–2).
Human beings do not have a heaven or hell to put you in. Have you ever heard that before?
I admit today’s passage may seem misplaced, considering this is a devotional thought about God’s promises. The passage underscores the need for us to shun hypocrisy and seeking to subvert heavenly government. Judgment belongs to God and is determined by Jesus Christ. Jesus, the Advocate for all who surrender to Him, and the Executor of God’s will against those who hate love, has all of the information. He knows what is in each of our hearts. The Holy Spirit has been moving and wooing us to bring us under subjection to His will, and to effect peace in our lives, but some will refuse His entreaties. His complete and eternal knowledge of all things is necessary to give just judgment. His assumption of human form and empathy to the human condition uniquely qualifies Him for the task. Jesus is judge; we are not. Full stop.
Here’s the promise, which is encased in a cautionary wrapper: If you (wisely) refuse to condemn others according to your faulty standards of righteousness, you will not be judged according to such a standard. If you choose to allow God to fulfil His sovereign role when it comes to others’ plights, you may have the same merciful God work on your behalf. If you resist the hypocrisy that follows in these verses, you will see clearly enough to stay in your lane and let God be God: “Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3–5, HCSB).
God’s standard of judgment is strict, but ours is faulty. By which of the two would you prefer to be judged? What if the same One who judges you in heaven also gave all to save you? I would rather be judged by the One who loves me and has all the evidence, which He handily expunges when we accept Him by faith. How about you?—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)
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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Thursday, January 11, 2018
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-01-11-2018
This is devotional thought number 46 in our devotional series, God’s Promises are Sure!
“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” (Matthew 7:1–2).
Human beings do not have a heaven or hell to put you in. Have you ever heard that before?
I admit today’s passage may seem misplaced, considering this is a devotional thought about God’s promises. The passage underscores the need for us to shun hypocrisy and seeking to subvert heavenly government. Judgment belongs to God and is determined by Jesus Christ. Jesus, the Advocate for all who surrender to Him, and the Executor of God’s will against those who hate love, has all of the information. He knows what is in each of our hearts. The Holy Spirit has been moving and wooing us to bring us under subjection to His will, and to effect peace in our lives, but some will refuse His entreaties. His complete and eternal knowledge of all things is necessary to give just judgment. His assumption of human form and empathy to the human condition uniquely qualifies Him for the task. Jesus is judge; we are not. Full stop.
Here’s the promise, which is encased in a cautionary wrapper: If you (wisely) refuse to condemn others according to your faulty standards of righteousness, you will not be judged according to such a standard. If you choose to allow God to fulfil His sovereign role when it comes to others’ plights, you may have the same merciful God work on your behalf. If you resist the hypocrisy that follows in these verses, you will see clearly enough to stay in your lane and let God be God: “Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3–5, HCSB).
God’s standard of judgment is strict, but ours is faulty. By which of the two would you prefer to be judged? What if the same One who judges you in heaven also gave all to save you? I would rather be judged by the One who loves me and has all the evidence, which He handily expunges when we accept Him by faith. How about you?—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Thursday, January 11, 2018
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-01-11-2018
This is devotional thought number 46 in our devotional series, God’s Promises are Sure!
“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” (Matthew 7:1–2).
Human beings do not have a heaven or hell to put you in. Have you ever heard that before?
I admit today’s passage may seem misplaced, considering this is a devotional thought about God’s promises. The passage underscores the need for us to shun hypocrisy and seeking to subvert heavenly government. Judgment belongs to God and is determined by Jesus Christ. Jesus, the Advocate for all who surrender to Him, and the Executor of God’s will against those who hate love, has all of the information. He knows what is in each of our hearts. The Holy Spirit has been moving and wooing us to bring us under subjection to His will, and to effect peace in our lives, but some will refuse His entreaties. His complete and eternal knowledge of all things is necessary to give just judgment. His assumption of human form and empathy to the human condition uniquely qualifies Him for the task. Jesus is judge; we are not. Full stop.
Here’s the promise, which is encased in a cautionary wrapper: If you (wisely) refuse to condemn others according to your faulty standards of righteousness, you will not be judged according to such a standard. If you choose to allow God to fulfil His sovereign role when it comes to others’ plights, you may have the same merciful God work on your behalf. If you resist the hypocrisy that follows in these verses, you will see clearly enough to stay in your lane and let God be God: “Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3–5, HCSB).
God’s standard of judgment is strict, but ours is faulty. By which of the two would you prefer to be judged? What if the same One who judges you in heaven also gave all to save you? I would rather be judged by the One who loves me and has all the evidence, which He handily expunges when we accept Him by faith. How about you?—L. David Harris (www.LDavidHarris.com)