Memorise: I am the vine, ye are the branches:
He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same
bringeth forth much fruit: for
without me ye can do nothing.
Bible Reading:
Deuteronomy 7:12-18(NKJV)
12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. 13 And
He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the
fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new
wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your
flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 15 And the Lord
will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of
the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. 16 Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
17 “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’— 18 you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
Bible in one year: Numbers 34-36, Job 1:6-12
MESSAGE!!!
When God said, “Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness”, little could an uninformed person
know that this goes with a lot of responsibilities. For instance, by this
divine decision, man is made responsible for his actions and inactions because
he is a god. This is the reason why man, consciously or unconsciously takes his
life in his hands and works out his own well being; even to a fault, and Jesus
Christ warned us against this extremism.
“Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?
Or, What shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all
these things do the Gentiles seek) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye
have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Matthew 6:31-33
The scripture above
reveals the secret of divine blessings. Although man is a responsible carrier
of God’s image, however, he is dependent on the God whose image he is carrying.
At the creation of man, when man lived in accordance with God’s instruction, he
lived in all-round abundance,
because God bestowed His blessing upon him and
his wife. With little effort, man got great harvest. Therefore, Man must live
according to the dictates of God to enjoy divine blessings. Jesus Christ, the
incarnate of the Almighty God pointed this out in our memory verse of today.
For us to be divinely
blessed, we must make Jesus Christ our Lord; we must be born again; that is, we
must admit what the scripture says in Romans 3:23: “For all have sinned, and
come short of the glory of God” and quickly do something about it. What we must
do is to repent according to the admonition of Peter:
“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins
may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence
of the Lord.”
Acts 3:19
It is high time all
men, particularly the children of God, understood the secret of divine
blessings; that is abiding in the Son of the Living God, the True Vine. Let us
stop being anxious of what we want to become. The Bible says:
“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his
poverty might be rich.”
2nd Corinthians 8:9
With His benevolent
act which was climaxed at the Cross, we are abundantly blessed without any
addition of sorrow (Proverbs 10:22)
Father, please open my eyes to see the secret
of divine blessings and let me align myself with it.
