Friday after the Last Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on November 25, 2022 by under
Scripture: Hebrews 12:22-29 (NKJV)
12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Devotion
To truly understand who we are as Christians, we must be reminded, and reminded, and reminded again that all that is ours as Christians has been given to us… given to us by God. Our very ability to serve God “with reverence and godly fear” comes to us out of His grace and mercy. God has made us part of “the general assembly” of His kingdom because God has called us to faith in Christ. That is why it also gives us the warning “see that you do not refuse Him who speaks.”
This “reverence and godly fear” ought to be at the forefront of how one approaches God on Sunday morning in worship. The continual call of God is that one is to repent and believe the Gospel of forgiveness of sins for Jesus’ sake. No amount of how much one claims to sincerely love God can replace what He calls people to do: repent and believe the Gospel.
Left to ourselves and our feelings we find ourselves left with only ourselves and our feelings. Absent of God and His mercy, all that we think, say, and do is worthless before Him for the sincerity God desires of us He must first give to us in Christ.
Only when the Holy Ghost brings us to repent of our sins and to trust in God’s forgiveness, are we able to approach God in “reverence and godly fear.”
Prayer: Absolve, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy people from their offenses; that from the bonds of our sins which, by reason of our frailty, we have brought upon us, we may be delivered by Thy bountiful goodness; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
