GOD’S WORD FOR  NOVEMBER 25

Our  book excerpt today, and ongoing,  is from “Chiseled by the Master’s Hand”  Lessons from the Life of Peter, by Erwin  Lutzer.  Dr. Lutzer is  Canadian-born and served as Senior Pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years, until his retirement in 2016.   He now serves as Pastor Emeritus of Moody Church.  He’s written many books and has radio and internet teaching programs.

*** ***

TRUTH MUST BE ACCEPTED OR REJECTED

We all must go somewhere.  Separated from God by our sin yet facing the prospect of living eternally, we all need help.  Where do we go in our loneliness and pain?  Where do we go with our unanswered questions?  To whom shall we go when our own resources lead to despair?  Should we go to education?  To Money?  To science?  To whom shall we go?

“A test of the value of any given thing is whether or not a substitute can be found for it,”  wrote Clarence McCartney.  “If some other thing will serve just as well, then its value is limited.  But if there is no substitute for it, it is of higher value.”    No one else can take Christ’s place; no one can do for us what He has done.  There truly is nowhere else to go.

F.B. Meyer wrote:

To whom shall we go when the light of the great white throne we suddenly find that snow-water can never cleanse hearts and consciences, on which sin has laid its defiling hand?

To whom shall we go when one by one the lights which we have trusted die out in the sky and neither sun nor stars shine for many days, and no small tempest lies upon the distraught soul, which hears the breakers dashing on an unknown shore?

To whom shall we go in the loneliness of age, in the pains of mortal sickness, in the hour of death, in the day of account, amid the splendor of a holiness which angels cannot face, and a purity before which the heavens are not clean?

A skeptic will deride us, the ritualist will offer us a meaningful yet empty rite.  The philosopher will give us the presumptions of fallible men.  The moralist will give us the guidance which he himself fails to follow.  Only Christ could say,

“All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son, except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”  (Matthew 11:27).

Who has more insight into the nature of God than Christ?  Who has made more astounding claims and then performed miracles to confirm them?   What man on Planet earth has ever spoken as has this One?  Whose death can make atonement for our sins?

*** ***

John 1:18 ~ ~ No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

2 Corinthians 11:3 ~ ~ But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Psalm 2:12 ~ ~ Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

Matthew 1:27 ~ ~ All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son, except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

1 Corinthians 3:19 ~ ~ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness”;

Colossians 2:8 ~ ~ Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

Published by liveinthelightofourlord

View all posts by liveinthelightofourlord