So Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? (Matthew
In this
chapter our Lord teaches that true religion is certainly not a matter of eating
and drinking or outward ceremonial. It is the intention of the soul, the
continual drawing from Christ the life power needed for our work and ministry
to others. It may be illustrated by the experience of the diver, who explores
the ocean floor, but draws upon the life-giving air that sweeps the ocean
surface.
Our Lord
did not under estimate the outward observance of the forms of religion; He set
us a definite example by His attendance at synagogue and the
Perhaps the
two greatest definitions of pure religion are these, the first from the Old
Testament: "Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with thy God." And the
second from the New Testament: "Pure religion and undefiled before God and
the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and
to keep himself unspotted from the world." But to fulfill each of these we
need the aid of the Holy Spirit.
To be truly
religious is within the reach and scope of us all; but we must avail ourselves
of what Jesus Christ has done to bring us to God. In Him there is absolute
forgiveness for all the past and infinite help and grace for the future. He is
willing to be our guarantee, Friend, and Helper. Through Him we may become
partakers of the divine nature, and escape the corruption which is in the world
through lust.
PRAYER
Give unto
me, gracious Lord, the pilgrim spirit that I may be in the world and not of it.
Give me Your grace to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
May I ever walk worthy of the heavenly calling. I ask these things in Jesus’
name, AMEN.
God's Daily Promise
Promise #227:
I will give power to the exhausted and I strengthen the weak.
Isaiah 40:29 (WEB)
He gives power to the
weak.
He increases the strength of
him who has no might.
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