Monday, October 12, 2015

Mon.’s Devo - Keep Believing

Read: Matthew 11
Jesus mentions Chorazin and Bethsaida where Jesus did mighty miracles. He implied that even though he did great acts there, they did not repent. Bethsaida means “house of mercy”. Where more mercy is shown then more is required. They will be judge harsher because they were given greater opportunity to repent and refused. Capernaum was also mentioned as being greatly judged. It was a large prosperous city where Jesus spent much time teaching and doing miracles. John 6 was preached at Capernaum where Jesus told them he was the bread of life and that if they had seen him then they had seen God. This was a little hard for them to swallow. It shouldn’t have been because he did such great works right before them but, they still couldn’t believe. Jesus compared them all to Sodom who he destroyed with fire and who was a picture of end-time judgment. They will be judged worse than Sodom.
This is such a powerful statement to us who have walked with God all our lives. We are responsible for more than the new Christian and it is easy to get hardened to believe God is going to do any more than we have seen with our eyes. The truth is, we are about to see the “greater works” Jesus told his disciples about. What the apostles did after Jesus’ death was a foretaste of what is about to happen. We need to guard our hearts and not get hardened with unbelief. Unbelief was the reason the Israelites couldn’t enter into the promise land and it will keep us from ours if we let it.
Lord, we choose to believe that your are about to tabernacle with your people in a way you have never done in the past. Help us to keep our expectations high.

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