Wednesday after the Third Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on June 23, 2021 by under
Scripture: St. Luke 10:13-16 (NKJV)
10:13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. 16 He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”
Devotion
“He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”
Have you ever wondered why pastors wear black shirts with those white tabs at the neck? The symbolism suggests this: we admit that we are “black in sin” like anyone else, but the Lord has set us apart, to use our throat boxes to speak His holy Words to you, so there is white at the throat. We find this idea in the words of our Lord Himself. “He who hears you hears Me.”
Can pastors speak words that are not true? Of course they can, and history is littered with way too many examples of that. But there is an opposite error we can make too: the error of dismissing the Word of God as nothing more than the word of a man, when that word says something to us that we do not want to hear. Dear ones in Christ, a faithful pastor does not speak words of rebuke because he likes to upset you, or because he wants you to dislike him. He does it because he is watching out for your soul, and calling you back to repentant faith in Jesus. So hear him, and thus, hear Jesus.
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, 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.
