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Religions > Bible |
| User: |
"rhuff163" |
| Date: |
18 May 2005 11:01:43 PM |
| Object: |
Knowing God's motives |
Devotional Guide
For the week of May 15, 2005
LIFE ON LOAN
Knowing God's motives
To Read: Genesis 25-27
To Know:
"He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I
knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering
where you did not winnow; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in
the ground. Here you have what is yours.'" (Matt.25: 24,25)
A newly appointed professor at a Christian school confronted the president
of the college with the fact that his first paycheck was less than the
agreed upon salary. The president asked, "Do you have that in writing?" He
did not. This beginning teacher had relocated his family and signed a
contract that did not include salary figures. His pay had been settled by a
handshake. This bitter pill eventuated in the school losing one of the best
Christian teachers of the twentieth century.
Jesus showed us the fatal flaw that doomed the condemned servant. The
servant said he knew the character of his master. The point is not that God
created the world with a profit margin in mind. The point is that we ought
to know the motives of the king of heaven at least as well as this servant
knew the will of his lord. Our Lord glories in being gracious. If we would
be rewarded by such a one, then we should live the life we have been lent in
order to show off such great grace.
To Do:
When we were utterly undeserving God the Father chose us to be his; God the
Son paid the price of our sin by shedding his life's blood; and God the Holy
Spirit entered our heart in order that our union with Christ would not be
merely doctrinal, but dynamic. All this is of grace. We had earned death as
the wages of our sin. Our redemption is all of grace. If we will invest the
life God has bestowed upon us in Christ, then we will live to praise the
glory of his grace.
To Ask:
Father, make me expert at being gracious.
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