Our Devotion To God

Meditations in the Season of Epiphany 

February 28, 2022

Our Devotion To God 

The Lord now chose seventy-two other disciples and sent them ahead in pairs to all the towns and places he planned to visit.

Luke 10:1

Read: Luke 10:1-16

This passage, when taken together with the closing passage in chapter nine, reveals the double sense of urgency Jesus felt as he increased his disciples by six-fold to assist him in calling people to become the children of God.

The first urgency is for our individual lives as they are connected to family and friends. Jesus is pointing to the truth that we can never fulfill our responsibilities in the highest and best way possible until we are the children of God. It is only through knowing and applying Godly principles and practices in our lives that we are able live and relate to others as God’s beloved children.

The second urgency is that how we relate to one another in our most basic family and cultural units has huge implications for our communities, even our nation. God is love; Israel, God’s chosen people were characterized by hate. They hated their neighbors, including the Samaritans, which is the subject of Jesus’ parable in the second half of chapter ten. They hated the Romans. They wanted all-out war against the Roman invaders. Jesus knew Israel, unless she turned her heart to God, was heading head-long into destruction by the Roman Empire; hence the urgency in calling people to become the children of God.

My Takeaway: When we choose our devotion to God above all else, we come to know Jesus as the Prince of Peace and then the circle is complete; “God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9)

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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