Monday 30 May 2022

May 30: John 16:29-33

Key Verse: John 16:32
‘A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.

Devotion:
I wonder if you have been very committed to something in your life and never imagined you would ever give up – until you look back and realise you have given up! I’m quite certain the disciples would never have imagined they would give up on following Jesus, especially now they were coming to terms with Jesus being the Son of God, but Jesus was predicting what they would end up doing when He gave His life up on the cross.

God is the one who knows all things; He certainly knows what lies ahead for each of us even if we cannot figure our own lives out! Even if we try our hardest to follow and obey God, we will probably still fall short of the mark just as the disciples would end up doing. They were committed to Christ and yet when they faced what they though was an impossible position, they gave in and followed the world, going back to their old lifestyles and wondering what went wrong!

Jesus knew what lay ahead for Him. He knew it was an impossible position, but He continued going forward to make sure that set of events which were foretold would come to pass. This is because He knew God had this all planned out and He was going to follow and obey no matter what!

We are human like the disciples. Jesus was human too… but He was not going to let the world dictate what He did – He was going to allow God the Father dictate what would happen. We are going to have to face certain trouble in our lives because we live in this world full of trouble. Jesus had to face trouble because He was human too. What we do with that trouble will dictate what sort of people we are! Jesus made sure He followed God. That is our aim too!

Points to Ponder:
Do you give in to worldly things?

When was the last time you obeyed God instead of the world?