Wednesday after the Eighth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on July 24, 2024 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
“Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved.”
Elections are coming upon us, and many things inevitably happen. One is that people with radically different political views will point to Jesus and say, “See? Jesus said these things! Therefore you should vote our way.” But election year politics are matters of this world. Jesus did not come to straighten out the political affairs of men. He is very clear: “I say these things that you may be saved.” He came to straighten out our eternity!
As people in our country fall away from the Faith, more and more they transform politics into their substitute religion. Be not like unto them. Jesus is not our political mascot, He is our Savior. God grant us therefore to hear what He says. And hearing, God grant us to repent of our sins, trust in His holy life, His atoning death, and His glorious resurrection for the forgiveness of our sins, “that you may be saved.”
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.
