Sat.’s Devo - Jesus is Our Portion

Read Josh. 19:1-20:9, Luke 19:28-48, Ps. 88:1-18, Pr. 13:12-14 The last tribes received their land and Joshua got Timnath-serah which means “God will withhold a portion.” God always makes a place for us just as He did for Joshua and his family. In Luke, Jesus is about to come into his eternal inheritance. He sends his disciples to get a donkey and rides into Jerusalem on the path of the Temple lamb with would die for the nation on Passover. The crowd that was gathered for the celebration of this lamb couldn’t help but give their praises to the real Lamb of God as he came down the same path. When the people praise Jesus as the King, his disciples ask to stop them. Jesus answers them by saying if they don’t praise Him, then the rocks will. Scientists have proven that rocks hold the sound of everything they have “heard”. These rocks would have heard, “Let there by light”. How sad for Jesus to recognize that nature knew who he was, but the very ones he came to save didn’t. He wept over Jerusalem as he foresaw its future. He might have even quoted our Psalms for today. Then he cleansed the temple by throwing out the dishonest money changers. What we do on earth has great power in heaven. I wonder if he wasn’t cleansing heaven at the same time. Jesus went into the temple and started teaching. He was openly presenting himself to the ones that would kill him. Jesus knew that he went there to die so he was walking out his last days in His father’s will - the same place where he told his parents when he was 12 that He needed to be. Lord, may we do Your will and be about Your business.