A Devotional Study of the Living Word of God

Psalm 119:98 Enemies? Do we have enemies? The naive or natural person might say no! But to the Spiritually wise it is the Commandments of God that always pave the path of victory!

Jeremiah 33:3

Good Morning

In the face of things, all we see is what is on the surface. I am going to dig back into the past, sometime during the eighteenth year of my life on this planet. I had just enlisted in the Navy and finished Boot Camp and came home on leave. I called up the girl who I had been dating, her comment to going out that evening was “no” her father had someone over for an evening meal and she could not go out. I was angry, later I drove by her house and saw her playing horseshoes with a guy about our age. Now I was even more angry. At the end of the block, I turned around, drove back to her house, walked around back and made a complete fool of myself, thus ending that relationship. Her father had invited a person from the local orphanage to his home for an evening family style meal. The point: Many times we approach life with a critical eye. In fact; I would like to entitle the critical eye as the “One way Eye”, a one way eye has only one purpose and that is to see things – One Way! Well, there is no rocket science in understanding this, is there? But all to often I see people who have already formed an opinion before the event appears on the horizon. It is sort of like this: On the horizon there is something that looks like a storm. The one way eye, sounds the alarm, prepares everyone for a disastrous moment. The person is so pretentious that everyone pulls back and any words opposed from others is ignored because the one way eye is right. All warnings to the contrary have no merit in the selfish personal ambition of the one way eye. This form of judging is; “always wrong”. Judging someone before you really know them is a serious injustice to that person and even to yourself. God puts people in our life and if we see them with the one way eye, we do not see them then as God has and we will miss the blessing. 1 John 4:20-21. The armor of the one way eye is blindness to the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Romans 3

Romans 3:1 The hardest things for us to understand are sometimes caused by our desire to read beyond what is being said. The Jew, circumcision and the sayings of God. Men, especially gentile men have argued the circumstances of the Jew since the days of Abraham, but the Jew has not gone away by argument. Nations have tried to rid the world of the Jew, and now they are on every street corner of the world. So as a nation, they are collectively a unique people. They are the most talked about people of the world and there is not a language in the world that does not accommodate the name of a Jewish man by the name of Jesus. These may not know Him personally, but they do know His Name.

Romans 3:2 So what is this “profit” of circumcision then? Paul states; “much in every way!” do we want to believe this? Most would say, no I don't want to believe it. So how do we approach such a controversy. Romans 2:28-29. There is a Jewish nation and a nation of Gentiles also. There is this third nation, the real one, whose builder and maker is God. In this nation are men and women who have a circumcision of the heart, not made with the hands of man, but made by Spiritual wisdom, a separation inwardly, being that of the heart. So the blessing that God refers to, is not applied to the outward appearance of the flesh, but the inward working of the Spirit of God who circumcises all of the hearts of those who are sanctified in truth. Jesus Christ is the Truth of God. Yet, there remains a day when the Jewish nation will be restored to physical blessing and that will be when they speak these words. “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD. Matthew 23:37-39.