Saturday after the Third Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on June 26, 2021 by under
Scripture: St. John 8:42-47 (NKJV)
8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
Devotion
So many people try to have it both ways. They don’t want to be rude and offend their Christian friends, but they don’t want Jesus telling them how to run their lives, either. So they say things like, “I believe Jesus was a great man, maybe even a prophet, but not God.” It doesn’t really work. If He was in error, if He sinned, let this be demonstrated. But if that cannot be done, if Jesus told the truth when He claimed to be the Son of God and to take away the sin of the world, then believe in Him!
People go looking for a “sliding scale,” even when a situation really is a matter of black or white, right or wrong, truth or falsehood. Jesus told the truth. Jesus is the Truth, the Truth made flesh and blood. “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” He tells us.
So believe in Him. And believing, submit to Him, to His will, to His designs for your life. Repent of this “I believe in Him, but I want to do things my own way” sort of attitude. The One you believe in knows you better than you know yourself, and loves you more perfectly than you love yourself. As we trust Jesus for the forgiveness of sins and eternal life, God grant us also grace to trust Him in everything else.
Prayer: O God, the Protector of all that trust in Thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy, increase and multiply upon us Thy mercy that, Thou being our Ruler and Guide, we may so pass through things temporal that we finally lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
