CAC LIVING WATER DAILY DEVOTIONAL...
Date:- MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2016
Topic: - QUMRAN
Read: - LUKE 14: 7-14
MEMORISE: ... and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous. (Luke 14: 14)
EXPOSITION:
Qumran was a first-century Jewish community that isolated itself from outside influences, because they were preparing for the Messiah's arrival. Devotional life, ceremonial washings, and strict adherence to rules of conduct were followed so much that even the physically challenged - lame, blind, etc. - were not allowed to sit at the table with them. Did that really make them really holy and truly consecrated? Of course, NO!
Christ's message in Luke 14: 7ff negates such a lifestyle. Christ advocates that doing good to the well-to-do who we know can repay us isn't rewarding at all. Compare God's immeasurable, inexhaustible blessings with the goodies that someone will give in return for the kind gesture (actually with ulterior motive) you first did to them. What if such a person disappoints you eventually? (Jer. 17: 5- 9). Ordinary worm, with its life in its nostrils!
The word of God today speaks to the spiritual elites who like to fellowship with people who think and act like us. Jesus exhorts that to be like Him, we need to open our doors to everyone, for the inclusive gospel cannot be shared by an exclusive people (George Sweeting).
PRAYER POINTS:
1. Lord, uproot from within me every iota of spiritual arrogance, inferiority complex and complacency, in Jesus’ name.
2. Lord, help churches to overcome and do away with spiritual pride that hinders proper collaboration for the furtherance of the gospel.
3. Lord, help churches and their leaders to overcome unhealthy comparison that is negatively impacting on the image of the Church in the land.
EXTRA READING FOR THE DAY: EXODUS 17-20
Remain Blessed!
Author: CAC WORLDWIDE
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