{"id":2108,"date":"2020-03-23T08:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T16:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2020-03-23T08:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T16:31:36","slug":"devotion-2-timothy-316-17-beyond-sensibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2108","title":{"rendered":"Devotion 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Beyond Sensibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Timothy 3:16-17<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God\u00a0a<\/a>\u00a0may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.<\/i><\/p>\n

1 John 4:16-17<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.\u00a0\u00a0God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.\u00a017<\/a><\/span>This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.<\/i><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not want to be \u201csensible\u201d in how we love and serve the Lord. Was it sensible for the Father to send Jesus, and for Jesus to want to come, to humble Himself by shedding His divinity to live as a man? (Philippians 2:6-8<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0Was it sensible that Jesus, the God who created and loves us (John 1:3<\/b>), to come to live as a human child to be teased and ostracized by other children because they could sense that He was different, and because they thought Him strange as He would not join their shenanigans?\u00a0\u00a0Was it sensible He would come knowing that as a young boy even the adults would look at Him and think Him strange that He had such keen spiritual insight though He hadn\u2019t been formally educated in the educational system? (Luke 2:46-47<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0Was it sensible for Him to come knowing that even His own half-brothers would ridicule Him and not believe in His divine nature and that He was indeed the Chosen One, the Messiah, and the Lord God in the flesh? (John 7:1-5, Mark 3:20-21<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0Was it sensible for Him to willingly step off His heavenly throne to take on human flesh (John 1:14<\/b>), to be rejected by His own people (Luke 4:24<\/b>), to be mocked, ridiculed and spit on (Matthew 27:27-31<\/b>), to be punched in the face (Matthew 26:67, John 18:22<\/b>) to have his beard torn off (Isaiah 50:6<\/b>), to have a mock crown of thorns forced down onto His head (Matthew 27:29<\/b>), to be whipped till His organs were exposed (Mark 15:15<\/b>), to carry a rough wooden cross on the raw nerves exposed in His back (John 19:17, Mark 15:21<\/b>), and to have nails driven through His hands and feet so to secure Him to the wooden cross that He would asphyxiate upon? (John 20:25<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0Was it sensible for Him to come and die for our sins so that we could live forever in His love and in the love of the Father? (Colossians 1:21-22, Hebrews 10:10<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0Was it sensible that He should look from the cross upon people who had put Him on the cross, the cross on which He could not breathe unless he pulled up on His pierced hands and pushed up on His pierced feet, to still love them so much that He would cry out to His Father \u201cForgive them for they know not what they do?\u201d (Luke 23:24<\/b>) Was it sensible for Jesus to suffer and die for a world that would largely reject Him? (John 1:9-13<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0Really, can anyone think that the Father subjecting Jesus, in full knowledge of what was to happen, to all the degradation and suffering, was reasonable or sensible as the world thinks?<\/p>\n

The life of Jesus on earth, not seen with spiritual eyes (Luke 24:31, Acts 26:18, Ephesians 1:18<\/b>), is not reasonable and is insensible.\u00a0\u00a0So if God Himself, in the form of Jesus, loves all of us so unreasonably and so insensibly as to do all that He did for us, why should we want to be \u201csensible\u201d in our faith?\u00a0\u00a0No, it was God\u2019s love for us that the Father sent Jesus and that Jesus not only consented, but desired to come to suffer and die for us.\u00a0\u00a0It makes no sense unless God the Holy Spirit lives within and reveals the love and beauty of it all. (1 Corinthians 2:8-16<\/b>)<\/p>\n

Those who truly love Jesus and want to honor Him believe the Word of God and act on it.\u00a0\u00a0(James 1:22, Matthew 7:24<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0If we err in being zealous, so be it! Our desire is to please God! What does that mean? It means we need to completely love Him with all our hearts and live out His love that fills us and expresses His love to the world.\u00a0(Mark 12:30-31<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0In doing that, we show the love of God that brought Jesus to us.\u00a0\u00a0The Love of God that makes no earthly sense but displays God\u2019s indescribable love and wisdom.\u00a0\u00a0Let us continue to be fervent in our love and service for the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0Let the fire not be unattended, but fed and stoked to rage ever hotter and ever brighter. (Revelation 3:17-19<\/b>) Let\u2019s not be \u201csensible!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Let our passion for Christ be stoked by the great love of God so that we never become sensible but always be driven by His love.\u00a0\u00a0May we be unchanging insensible in our love and passion for Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0Let us be unchanging toward Him as He is unchanging toward us.\u00a0\u00a0Malachi 3:6a “\u201cFor I am the Lord, I do not change…”<\/p>\n

P<\/b><\/span>salm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n

Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 Timothy 3:16-17\u00a0–\u00a0All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God\u00a0a\u00a0may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 1 John 4:16-17\u00a0–\u00a0And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.\u00a0\u00a0God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[1863,129,1841,104,103,1700,100,106,93,101,94,1874,1871,17,711,2036],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-colossians","tag-corinthians","tag-ephesians","tag-hebrews","tag-isaiah","tag-james","tag-john","tag-luke","tag-mark","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-philippians","tag-psalm","tag-revelation","tag-timothy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}