Lord, hear our prayer:
Heavenly Father, glorious Lord, we remember how Jesus began life in the poverty of a stable. Through his life he was dependent on others for friendship and food; for anointing and a donkey; for a cross and a tomb. Lord, help us to praise him even when we are alone or afraid, rejected or overwhelmed by demands made upon us, lost or frustrated, confused or just hurting. Help us to praise him, for he enters even our pain. Thank you and praise to our King and Redeemer.
Amen.
Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
Thursday Reflecting
“Yes [Truth], Lord; yet.” – Matthew 15:27.
“Truth, Lord: yet!” is the sum and substance of faith. If we have learned to combine these words, we have learned to believe. Truth, Lord: “sin has abounded unto death”; yet “hath Thy grace much more abounded unto life.” Truth, Lord: “cursed is every one that abideth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them“; yet, “He who knew no sin was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” Truth, Lord, is the sea of our sin and guilt, and the righteous anger of God; yet, is the rock of Christ’s redemption and love. Truth, Lord, is a view of self; yet, is a view of Jesus.
~ SAPHIR
Thursday August 24, 2023
Matthew 7:9
“Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?”
The illustration of prayer that Our Lord uses here is that of a good child asking for a good thing. We talk about prayer as if God heard us irrespective of the fact of our relationship to Him (compare Matthew 5:45). Never say it is not God’s will to give you what you ask, don’t sit down and faint, but find out the reason, turn up the index. Are you rightly related to your wife, to your husband, to your children, to your fellow-students—are you a ‘good child’ there? ‘Oh, Lord, I have been irritable and cross, but I do want spiritual blessing.’ You cannot have it, you will have to do without until you come into the attitude of a good child.
We mistake defiance for devotion; arguing with God for abandonment. We will not look at the index. Have I been asking God to give me money for something I want when there is something I have not paid for? Have I been asking God for liberty while I am withholding it from someone who belongs to me? I have not forgiven someone his trespasses; I have not been kind to him; I have not been living as God’s child among my relatives and friends (see Matthew 5:12).
I am a child of God only by regeneration, and as a child of God I am good only as I walk in the light. Prayer with most of us is turned into pious platitude, it is a matter of emotion, mystical communion with God. Spiritually we are all good at producing fogs. If we turn up the index, we will see very clearly what is wrong—that friendship, that debt, that temper of mind. It is no use praying unless we are living as children of God. Then, Jesus says—“Everyone that asks receives.”
One day at the Knickerbockers Club in New York, a group of Mark Twain’s friends recalled that it was his birthday, and decided to write him a collective letter. They composed seven or eight pages of nonsense and, since they did not know offhand where Mark was, addressed it:
Mark Twain
Lord Knows Where
Several months elapsed when a postal addressed to them was received, bearing this message:
He did. Mark Twain
Psalm chapter 44 is bold. Who asks the Lord to “wake up”? Who asks Him why He is sleeping?
The psalmist doesn’t stop with these questions. He makes claims regarding God that seem like accusations: “you have rejected and disgraced us,” “you have given us as sheep for food,” and “you have sold your people cheaply” (Psalm 44:9-12). How do we deal with these types of psalms? Should we be as bold in our relationship with God?
But these claims aren’t made without reason. The psalmist opens his lament with, “O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestors have told us of work you worked in their days, in days of old” (Psalm 44:1). He had heard stories of God’s past faithfulness—how he delivered His people in battles. He also knew that God had claimed His people, that His favor to them was a testimony to the surrounding nations. But the psalmist experiences something different. Why is Israel “a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us” (Psalm 44:13)?
The psalmist wrestles with his experience because he knows God’s will. He appeals to God’s faithfulness, love, and reputation among the nations. It’s not much different from our own experience, as we wrestle with evil, sorrow, and pain, and as we wonder about God’s work in the world.
But in the midst of the confusion, we still need to place trust in God. Although the psalmist questions boldly, he acknowledges, “In God, we boast all the day, and we will give thanks to your name forever” (Psalm 44:8). At the end of the psalm, he still petitions God for help, on the basis of His love: “Rise up! Be a help for us, and redeem us for the sake of your loyal love” (Psalm 44:26).
God has redeemed us for the sake of His loyal love, and He is present and active—even when it seems otherwise. Colossians chapter 1 tells us to give thanks to the Father, “who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves … because all things in the heavens and on the earth were created by him . . . and in him all things are held together . . . because he was well pleased for all the fullness to dwell in him, and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by making peace through the blood of his cross” (Colossians 1:12–20).
Scripture References: Philippians 1:1-11
We Are Saints in Christ Jesus
Paul addressed the quarreling Philippians as “saints in Christ Jesus,” in verse 1.
Every believer is a saint but all are not saintly! As we grow in grace, however, we move toward becoming “saintly saints.” It is both positional and progressive.
The word means “holy ones.” It is used in the New Testament to describe both things and people that have been set apart by God for Himself and for His service. The word is translated “saints” approximately sixty-three times in the New Testament. Everyone who has been saved is a saint. This is the word used most often in the New Testament to describe one who is trusting in Jesus.
In his booklet Live Sermon Outlines, Ian MacPherson wrote about a grocer in Edinburgh, Scotland, who was named James Saint.
A man who knew James Saint wrote a letter to him on one occasion but mistakenly addressed it to “James Saint, Aberdeen, Scotland.”
When the letter reached Aberdeen, the postal people searched diligently, but could not find anyone in their town named James Saint. So they returned the letter to the sender with a notation on the envelope: “There are no Saints in Aberdeen. Try Edinburgh.” MacPherson says this might be called “the case of the missing saint.”
Look in your telephone directory. Are there any “Saints” in your town? According to the telephone people, you may not have a single saint in your town!
But that’s according to the telephone company. According to the Lord Jesus, all who believe in Him are “saints in Christ Jesus.”
We are servants. But more than that, we are saints!
There’s the story of a woman who one day was looking down from the Empire State Building in New York City. Seeing the ant-like people crawling along on the street far below, she exclaimed: “I guess that’s the way people must appear to God.”
Oh no! Not even remotely! That isn’t how God sees us nor even thinks of us. He sees us as infinitely important and precious and desires for us only “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,” according to Paul in verse 2. Infinitely loved by Him, and having grace and peace are only two of the believer’s great privileges in Christ.
We are so precious to God that He has given us the greatest privileges in heaven or on earth available to mortals: that of being His sons and daughters, enjoying His grace and peace, and having fellowship intimately with Him.
When the magnificent truth that we sons and daughters of men have the inestimable privilege of being sons and daughters of God breaks upon us in all its glory and joy, we will determine not to spend our days majoring on minors!
Look at the three great privileges noted in these verses that belong to every believer.
We Are the Recipients of Divine Grace
“Grace . . . to you,” Paul exclaims in his writing quite emphatically.
It is in the form of a prayer. Paul is praying for the Philippian believers, reminding them that they have received God’s grace and praying that it shall continue to abound.
The word grace appears approximately 125 times in the New Testament. It is a choice word used more by Paul than by any other New Testament writer. No word in the New Testament is richer in meaning.
Before the word came into the Holy Scriptures, it was used by the Greeks to speak of a favor one friend did for another friend out of generosity, with no thought of being rewarded.
But when it came into the Scriptures, its meaning was lifted and ennobled.
God’s grace that we have received, and do receive in Christ, points back to the cross where God “so loved the world [us] that He gave His only begotten Son” (John 3:16). There God did a favor for us that far surpasses all that anyone ever did for a friend. But God did it not for those who were friendly toward Him but for those in rebellion against Him. Paul states this very clearly in his letter to the Romans: “When we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son” (Romans 5:10).
Those who really see, understand, and experience what God did for them at Calvary simply cannot spend their life majoring on minors!
Lord, hear our prayer:
Glorious Father, precious Lord, we praise you for your gentle understanding of our doubts and our fears. We praise you most for Jesus Christ and for the way that, in him, you shared in our suffering; that you are not a God who is content to sit on the sidelines of life. In Christ you entered into our world of pain and loss. We praise you that he is the only one who can say that he does know how we feel and that he fully understands what life costs us.
Amen.
Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
Wednesday Reflecting
“Lord, help me!” – Matthew 15:25.
There is a chain of but three links in this prayer of the poor woman of Canaan, but it reaches a long way. Some of the most beautiful prayers ever uttered are very short prayers. This is a very short prayer—any child can say it. There are three links in the chain, mark you. One link is on the throne of God; it is “Lord.” The other link is down here; it is “me.” And then there is a great link between that and this; it is “help.” “Lord, help me.” And the greater your need, the more that middle link in the chain will express.
~ MARCUS RAINSFORD
Wednesday August 23, 2023
1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
God is now aiming to reproduce in us the pattern which has already appeared in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The Christian life is not an imitation of Christ, but a direct new creation in Christ, and the union with Christ is so complete that He imparts His own nature to us and lives His own life in us and then it is not an imitation, but simply the outgrowth of the nature implanted within.
We live Christ-like because we have the Christ-life. God is not satisfied with anything less than perfection. He required that from His Son. He requires it from us, and He does not, in the process of grace, reduce the standard, but He brings us up to it. He does not let down the righteousness of the law, but He requires of us a righteousness that far exceeds the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, and then He imparts it to us. He counts us righteous in sanctification, and He says of the new creation, “He that doeth righteousness is righteous even as He is righteous.”
Lord, live out thy very life in me.
Lafayette tells us that he was once shut up in a little room in a gloomy prison for a great while. In the door of his little cell was a very small hole cut. At that hole, a soldier was placed day and night to watch him. All he could see was the soldier’s eye; but that eye was always there. Day and night, every moment when he looked up he always saw that eye. Oh, he said, it was dreadful! There was no escape, no hiding; when he lay down and when he rose up, that eye was watching him. How dreadful will the eye of God be upon the sinner!
~ J. H. Bomberger
“Better is an arrow from a friend than a kiss from an enemy.”
When I first heard this saying, I was struck by what a truism it is. It wasn’t until years later, though, that I began surrounding myself with wise friends who would tell me the truth even when it was difficult to hear.
Paul was a true friend to the Corinthians, and it’s for this reason that he rebuked them: “For if indeed I grieved you by my letter, I do not regret it. . . . For grief according to the will of God brings about a repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted, but worldly grief brings about death” (2 Corinthians 7:8, 10).
I recently felt God asking me to rebuke someone. I was hesitant at first, but I followed through. Afterward, I was tempted to lighten the weight of my words by writing a follow-up explanation, but I was certain that it wasn’t God’s will that I do so; I felt that nearly all the words I had spoken were in His will. I had to be confident that the rebuke had power to lead the person to repentance and that the repentance could lead to salvation. I shouldn’t regret what I had done, but embrace it.
Moses had a similar experience to Paul’s. He spoke harsh words into the lives of the Israelites when renewing God’s covenant with them. He said things like: “You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you may know that I am Yahweh your God” (Deuteronomy 29:6). When the Israelites were deprived of things they thought they deserved, it was so that they could learn about God; such deprivation would force them to be dependent upon Yahweh.
I had another experience lately where I was on the receiving end of a truthful rebuke. My typical response is defensiveness, but I sensed from my friend’s voice that he was genuine. He was speaking words of experience, love, and godly wisdom. God worked in my heart and I listened. Even though they hurt, I had to be thankful for the wise words. As I’ve been tempted to fall into my old patterns since then, that rebuke continues to make a difference. I’m thankful for honest friends.
We often use the phrase “Judge not lest you be judged” as an excuse for not speaking the truth to someone (Matthew 7:1). But Paul clearly didn’t use it that way. He understood that he was the worst of sinners, and he gladly admitted it. In grace, he issued rebukes.
Judging people incorrectly and out of hate or envy is a problem in our world. But so is failing to speak up when we see someone going astray. Paul didn’t judge—rather, he stated that God would judge according to His plans and oracles. Paul said it like it was, based on what God led him to say. He didn’t degrade people; he promoted godly behavior.
Scripture References: Philippians 1:1-11
Some years ago I came across one of the saddest statements I think I have ever read. The biographer of Horace Walpole, an eighteenth-century English author, wrote about Walpole: “All his tastes were minor.”
Apparently the biographer meant that Walpole stumbled through life, never seeing, even in his dreams, the things that are most magnificent and most desirable.
“All his tastes were minor.” What a sad epitaph.
When I read that sad commentary, I remembered another thing I had read about an unnamed man whose horizons must have been as low as Walpole’s.
At six months of age this man could recite the alphabet. At two he could read. Before he was three he had invented a formula for remembering important historical dates. At eleven he entered Harvard University and graduated with straight A’s. And at forty-eight he died in a rented room, barren except for the evidence of his favorite hobby: collecting streetcar transfers from all over the United States.
His biographer could have written of him, as was written of Walpole, “All his tastes were minor.”
The text of the Scriptures at which we are looking now looking at, I hope and pray, addresses us, probes our hearts, and forces us to ask ourselves, “Am I majoring on minors?”
Paul, who had not seen his Philippian friends for some time, was concerned about their spiritual welfare. He had heard of their quarrelsome, divided spirit. He feared they had shelved things of monumental importance and were majoring on minors, so he wrote to encourage them to “approve the things that are excellent.” He told them to get out of life’s minor key and major on things of major importance.
You and I must also be on guard against living in life’s minor key. It is a subtle temptation that threatens each of us. To help guard against majoring on minors, Paul showed us two things to remember: our position in Christ and our privileges in Christ.
John Dewey, an American university professor and philosopher, said: “The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”
The people to whom Paul wrote held no lofty, worldly positions. They were Roman citizens, chiefly Greeks, who lived in a lonely outpost far from Rome. Most of them were poor. Yet, as humble followers of Jesus Christ, Paul told them that they held in Jesus Christ the greatest position possible. What he said of them is also true for each of us.
We Are Servants of Jesus Christ
According to the late Greek scholar Kenneth Wuest, there are five Greek words in the New Testament translated by the English words servant or slave. Two of these words are used in verse 1 of our text. The first is translated “servants” and the other is translated “deacons”: “Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.”
Wuest wrote that “servants” translates the Greek word doulos. The doulos was a slave or servant born into slavery. He or she was bound to a master in a relationship to be broken only by death. The doulos had no will of his own, but lived only to obey his/her master. The word was used in the first century to describe the most abject, servile condition.
Paul wrote that he and Timothy were “bondservants” of Jesus Christ.” We are to understand that we, too, are servants bound to Christ Jesus.
We were born into that relationship. It’s called the new birth, and Jesus talks about it in John 3.
As a servant, our will is to be subjected to the will of our Savior. He is the Master. We are His servants. We are to place His interests above our interests.
Although the doulos was the most abject slave of the household and lived in the most servile conditions, as Christ’s servants our position is reversed: we are “kings and priests to/of God” (Revelation 1:6; 5:10; also see 20:6). But we are to live before Christ in the kind of humble spirit that characterized a first-century household slave.
The other word for servant is translated “deacons.” It is the word, diakonos, and comes from a verb which means “to pursue” or “to hasten after.”
Diakonos, which shows the servant actively engaged in his work, is also translated by the words “minister, servant” and “deacon.” It appears then that doulos more accurately describes the servant’s condition, and diakonos more describes the servant’s activity.
Lord, hear our prayer:
Mighty God and heavenly King, we praise you that you are with us, not simply when life is easy and carefree, but in the darkness, the emptiness and those times when we feel lost and uncertain. Though you have never promised that life would be easy, without pain or problems, you have assured us that you will be with us. We praise you that no matter who we are, where we go or what we are facing, your almighty presence never leaves us. Thank you, Redeemer and King.
Amen.
Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
Tuesday Reflecting
He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. – Matthew 14:23.
We may well take the lesson which Christ’s prayers teach us, for we all need it—that no life is so high, so holy, so full of habitual communion with God that it can afford to do without the hour of prayer, the secret place, the uttered word.… The life that was all one long prayer needed the mountain top, and the nightly converse with God. He who could say, “The Father hath not left me alone, for I do always the things that please Him,” felt that He must also have the special communion of spoken prayer. What Christ needed we cannot afford to neglect.
~ MACLAREN
Tuesday August 22, 2023
Deuteronomy 33:25
“As your days, so shall your strength be.”
What a varying promise it is! I do not mean that the promise varies, but adapts itself to all our changes. “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” Here is a fine sunshiny morning; all the world is laughing; everything looks glad; the birds are singing, the trees seem to be all alive with music. “My strength shall be as my day is,” says the pilgrim. Ah! Pilgrim, there is a little black cloud gathering. Soon it increases; the flash of lightning wounds the heaven, and it begins to bleed in showers. Pilgrim, “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” The birds have done singing, and the world has done laughing; but “as thy days, so shall thy strength be.” Now the dark night comes on, and another day approaches—a day of tempest, and whirlwind, and storm. Dost thou tremble, pilgrim?—“As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” “But there are robbers in the wood.”—“As thy days so shall thy strength be.” “But there are lions which devour me” “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” “But there are rivers; how shall I swim them?” Here is a boat to carry thee over; “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” “But there are fires: how shall I pass through them?” Here is the garment that will protect thee: “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” “But there are arrows that fly by day.” Here is thy shield: “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” “But there is the pestilence that walketh in darkness.” Here is thy antidote: “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” Wherever you may be, and whatever trouble awaits you, “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” Children of God, cannot you say that this has been true hitherto? I can.
A friend of mine said to a life-saver at Newport, R. I.: “How can you tell when anyone is in need of help when there are thousands of bathers on the beach and in the water making a perfect hub-hub of noises?” To which he answered: “No matter how great the noise and confusion, there has never been a single time when I could not distinguish the cry of distress above them all. I can always tell it.” And that is exactly like God. In the midst of the babel and confusion he never fails to hear the soul that cries out to him for help amid the breakers and storms of life.
~ Aquilla Web
It’s difficult to take rebuke, especially when it’s unsolicited. We feel exposed and embarrassed when our sin is brought to light. And if we don’t have the humility to accept rebuke, the experience can leave us at odds with the brave soul who assumes the task.
For Paul, who rebuked the Corinthians, news of their love was a relief and comfort to him: “But God, who comforts the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted among you, because he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more” (2 Corinthians 7:6–7).
We form community when others challenge us and encourage us to live for God. While community can fulfill our social needs, it’s this common purpose that draws us together. When we take rebuke graciously and seek forgiveness from God, it forges the bond of community. When we rebel, or when we’re sensitive and prideful, it creates a rift. Because the Corinthians felt sorrow for their sin and expressed concern for Paul, it solidified their relationship. And it comforted him and brought him incredible joy during conflict and trial.
Surprisingly, the rebuked person often has to be intentional about extending love and comfort to the one who brings the rebuke. Paul tells the Corinthians to “make room for us in your hearts” (2 Corinthians 7:2). We should do the same for those in our community. Not all people possess Paul’s zeal and boldness, so we should prepare ourselves to graciously accept correction when it comes—solicited or not. Reaching out to those around us and letting them know we appreciate their rebuke will help build up a community that is authentically following Jesus.
Please read Deuteronomy 18:9-22 for the background to this section.
The identification of true prophets (verses 20–22). Moses promised that there would be prophets sent by God to Israel to teach them what they needed to know, but the logical question people would ask was, “How can we distinguish a true prophet from a false prophet?” Moses had already told them that everything a prophet says and does must be tested by the Word of God (Deuteronomy 13:1–5), and he repeated that warning. “But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die” (Deuteronomy 18:20). This test was valid even if the prophet’s prediction came true or if he performed signs and wonders. But the ultimate test is that God’s true prophets are always 100 percent accurate (Deuteronomy 18:22). Modern day “prophets” boast of being 75 percent accurate, or maybe 80 percent, but that admission only brands them as false prophets. A prophet sent by God is never wrong; what he predicts will come to pass.
Believers today must exercise spiritual discernment because “many false prophets are gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1–6). John makes it clear that the first test of a true minister of the Word is the confession that Jesus Christ came in the flesh and is indeed the Son of God. When you listen to a teacher who is truly God’s servant, the Spirit dwelling in your heart will respond to the Word being taught (1 John 2:18–27). The message will be true to the Scriptures and will exalt Jesus Christ.
For a vivid description of false teachers and their methods, read 1 Timothy 4; 2 Timothy 3; 2 Peter 2; and the Epistle of Jude. The closer we come to the return of Christ, the more false prophets and false teachers will appear on the scene (Matthew 24:3–5, 23–27). Today it seems there are so many claiming “new” revelations, so we are definitely in the times the Scriptures speak of.
Moses has been focusing on the true worship of the Lord, a subject that’s very important to the church today. Over the years, my wife and I have attended formal worship services in grand churches as well as informal meetings in homes and even out-of-doors, and our hearts have been blessed. The important thing is not the culture or the setting but that we worship the Lord “in spirit and truth” (John 4:24). True worship comes from within, from a heart totally yielded to the Lord, and true worship is controlled by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God (Ephesians 5:18–21; Colossians 3:16–20). Our subjective feelings must be monitored by Scripture and motivated by the Spirit, otherwise we may be engaging in false worship. False worship is dangerous because it may open the door to demonic influences. Satan is a counterfeiter (2 Corinthians 11:13–15) who knows how to lead undiscerning people away from Christ and the truth. They think they’re filled with the Spirit when they’re really fooled by the spirits.
“Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen” (1 John 5:21).
Lord, hear our prayer:
Sovereign Lord, we praise you for the utter assurance of your total dependability. You never change; you are always reaching out in love for those whose lives are a poor imitation of all that you meant them to be. We praise you, great God that you are; your love is for those who are lost, afraid and defeated by all that life throws against them. We praise you for Christ, who set his face like flint in his determination to face the conflict of life for us, and that through his life, death and resurrection he has shown us the full measure of your love that will never be defeated.
Amen.
Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
Monday Reflecting
“Let both grow together until the harvest.” – Matthew 13:30.
It is God’s way to let “both grow together.” Here are lessons of patience and of charity. If God can wait, His servants can. If the Master of the harvest can bear with the tares, His children need not be anxious about them. The wheat and the tares in their early growth are alike; the best farmer cannot distinguish them. God sees the difference; man cannot, but “the day will declare it.” There is no tareless wheat-field, there is no pure Church on earth. The tares will not always be hidden, but when God’s sickle is thrust in they will be given to the fire. The wheat will all be gathered in due time,—not one of God’s children will be lost. When we see the tares, let us be patient; we would have cast Judas out long before Jesus did. He may try the faith, the charity, and the patience of His people now, by leaving Judas in the Church, as He did then.
Be charitable. What you think to be tares may be God’s wheat. What if they walk not with us? They may be for us. Bear with human frailty and sin; you also are frail and sinful. It is safe to leave the results with God.
~ H. H. JESSUP
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