The Wednesday after the Eighth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on August 13, 2025 by under
Scripture: St. John 5:30-38 (NKJV)
5:30 “I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
31 “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. 32 There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true. 33 You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34 Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. 35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.
36 “But I have a greater witness than John’s; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish—the very works that I do—bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.
37 “And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. 38 But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe.”
Devotion
Some people today find it important to give their “personal testimonies”. Often the difficulty with their testimonies is that they are far more “personal” than testimonies about Jesus.
Understanding what Jesus has done for you is important. Indeed, each individual ought to always give thanks to God for Jesus’ work of paying the price for our sins through His death on the cross. But we do well to remember that testifying about Christ’s work is to tell what He has done for the whole world. He is the “Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world.”
Our testimony to the world must be clear: “I am just like everyone else in this world, a poor, miserable sinner, and our only hope is Jesus Christ and His forgiveness.” That is why the Father sent Him.
The promise made by God to Adam and Eve in the garden was fulfilled in Jesus. Though His heel was bruised, He crushed the head of the serpent, thereby defeating death itself. Our sins are forgiven for Jesus’ sake by what Jesus secured on the cross for the whole world. It is granted unto us by our gracious God through faith. The work of our salvation has been completed by Christ and given to us as God’s free gift.
Collect: Grant to us, Lord, we beseech Thee, the Spirit to think and do always such things as are right; that we, who cannot do anything that is good without Thee, may by Thee be enabled to live according to Thy will; 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.
