MAY 30

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

John 14:21

“He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

Hebrews 13:5

“Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Matthew 25:35 & 40

“for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; …… ..‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’”

Romans 12:20

“Therefore ‘If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.’”

Psalm 12:5

“’For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now I will arise,’  says the Lord;  ‘I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.’”

Psalm 72:12

“For He will deliver the needy when he cries, The poor also, and him who has no helper.”

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We will be reading from a book by Erwin Lutzer, President of Moody Bible Institute.  It’s a short book about Christ’s sacrifice for us.  It’s called simply, “For Us.”

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John 19:28-29

“ After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!”  Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth.”

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“I thirst.”

After all His suffering, of course He was thirsty! A part of the anguish of crucifixion is the dehydration of the body.  But why force His tortured body to say the words aloud?  John makes it clear His primary purpose was to fulfill the prophecy of Psalm 69:21, “and for My thirst they gave Me sour wine to drink.”

These two little words.  “I thirst” show us that Jesus was fully human on the cross and they challenge us.  Would we have run to quench His thirst if we had been at the foot of the cross? We’d like to think so.  But how often have we failed to ease the suffering of the “least of these?”

Jesus tells us that to care for our brother or sister in Christ is the same as caring for Him.  Isn’t that worth whatever it costs us in time, energy and resources?  We shouldn’t drag our feet when we see someone in need ~ we should run to help!

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