A Witness Within

King James Daily Bible Study Devotional
Message Title: A Witness Within
Date: Saturday August 13, 2011
Chapters: Jeremiah 5-6, Proverb 13, Psalm 64
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Details of Today's Chapters: Jeremiah’s second message warning to Judah, continued. God’s charges against them and His judgments, and the terrors that follow from their sin.

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“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” - I John 5:4-11.

A witness is a testimony, someone who testifies to someone or thing by personal experience. There are many people who are saved that can not testify that they know Jesus, in fact, you may never know that they received Christ until the day you see them in heaven. There are a few though, a minority of witnesses that can and do testify that God is real, Jesus is real, and He lives in and through them today. How can they know this when they have not even seen Him in the flesh? When you truly allow Christ in Your life He changes you, He removes all the dirt and grit tugging on our bodies and little by little is seen, not only by you, but by others as well. Many, many people do, in fact, want to see God's blessings, the problem is change, they do not want to change.

God's judgment has been placed on Judah, Jerusalem is full of corruption and will soon be desolate, without God's presence. In a plea, through Jeremiah, God, talking one on one to the people, gives them one more chance to repent before they too are without God's presence.

“Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.” - Jeremiah 5:1-5.

It amazes me just how much God pleas for our attention, He never stops trying to get a person to see the truth about Him before it is too late, that is why Jesus has not returned yet. It boggles my mind that I spent years as a fool, not knowing the way of the Lord, the things I could have avoided had I just been taught the truth. My parents were none the wiser, they too were brought up on the same false doctrine. Praise God that I and my family now know the truth because we got around great men that told and showed it. It is very important that we, who do know the truth, keep speaking it, we are His witnesses and the more we allow Christ to live in us the more others can see the truth and believe it. “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” - Hebrews 12:1,2.

Ignorance to God's truth is one thing, although it does not keep us from facing judgment, but knowingly rejecting it is another and something God detests. Through Jeremiah we learn just how God felt about Jerusalem living in constant sin and those who refused to turn from their wicked ways.

“As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets. To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days. And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.” - Jeremiah 6:7-12.

You know God grieves at the sight of His people ignoring His warnings and refusing to listen to Him. Think about it, we are made in the image if God, the same feelings that we have, God has, the same anger and hurt that we have when we have been betrayed is the same emotions that God has. We ought to be counting every one of our blessings, especially the mercy and grace He has for us, and start reminding ourselves just what Jesus did for us. “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” - Hebrews 4:14-16.

I cry when I think of just how ignorant to God I was before I listened to His call, all the things I did and He forgave me and not only that, He now uses me to show His truths to others. I know my works do not get me to heaven, but I also know that I am a witness that if Christ can turn my life around He can turn anyone's around. It may not be the life I would have chosen for myself, but it is a life that God has chosen for me and I rather live here knowing that God accepts me just the way I am then trying to live a wicked life someone tries to convince me is right. “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” - Galatians 2:20.

Today's Prayer:
Dear God,
Still today I can not understand why You trust me with Your precious Word, but I do understand that I am a witness to the amazing life that You have given me just in the few short years that I vowed to let Your Son work in my life. Thank You Lord, for everything that You have done for me, You literally pulled me up out of the pit I was trapped in and for that I am grateful. I am Your witness, lead me and guide me and help me to keep doing what You have called me to do, it's all for Your glory and my benefit. I love You, Lord, and ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.

God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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