Jayamsih..! Welcome to today’s devotion!
God’s personal preference
Acts 1:8
- Christ’s nourishment was an opportunity to exercise faith in God the Father’s plan. His food was not primarily to meet the needs of others. Although redemption reveals our love for others, and that love compels us to be attentive to their needs, the redeemer is always a priority to be noticed. This is the same person who did the work that brings the movement of love into our hearts. Many people do all they can for others and never satisfy their need for God’s fellowship.
In the Old Testament (Ezekiel 44:15), God calls the priests to come and worship Him as their first priority. In the New Testament, our high priest again calls us to be his witnesses with his unchanging ministry (Acts 1:8). The Lord, in the full quality of His life, will fellowship with us as we meet the needs of others, but if we meet the needs of others without the provision of His throne life, we will either end up proud, or weary. In this we find momentary success in our own capacity; Or we soon discover our own abject failure to ever touch sovereignty through our natural perspective.
When we operate on the level of our own logic and Godless policies, which spell death, we will never see the face of grace. We may know in a sense what we are and what others ought to be, but we will never serve and receive the grace that determines us to perfect that work, (Exodus 33:22-23).
Today’s reading passage: Proverbs 1-3