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An Online Devotional About the Life of Lord Jesus

Changing the Church

August 6, 2020 Kelly Jadon
Photo Credit: Franz W. at Pixabay

Photo Credit: Franz W. at Pixabay

The summer of my junior year in college, I worked as a counselor at a Free Methodist Church camp in Ontario, Canada. One blustery night a ferocious storm blew through, fronted by lightning and thunder. It felled a large ancient oak. It landed just between the cabins on soft green grass. My turn on the maintenance crew that week required I help cut it up. A chainsaw was placed in my hands and I cut off great limbs. The trunk was left to professionals, who had better stronger equipment and more expertise.

Sometimes the old things need to be cut down to make way for new and better things.

Lord Jesus said, “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.  No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.” (Mark 2:21-22)

What was The Lord referring to? He’s speaking about the old religious systems that are so stuck in tradition that they’re inflexible and cannot contain a new work of God. And so, God goes outside these systems.

One good example would be Operation Christmas Child, run by Franklin Graham’s organization, Samaritan’s Purse. With a shoebox gift of love, they reach thousands of children for Christ who otherwise would have remained in darkness. It is one of the greatest moves of God in our time as each day thousands of children come to know Lord Jesus.

Another local example would be Roxanne Brown’s Carebag, Inc. which reaches hundreds of the homeless, giving them necessary living items, showers, and the love of God.

The list is endless. God is moving in His Church, taking us to knew and better ways of reaching the unreached, the unchurched, and those chained in darkness.

During these chaotic last six months, many churches have closed their doors. Some have reopened, some have not. Some never will reopen. (Michelle Boorstein/Washington Post) Not every church practices Godliness. God is cutting off limbs, preparing for new things.

When The Lord led His people, the Hebrews, out of bondage in Egypt, He began bringing about new things, teaching them to be a holy nation, set aside to Him. Old ideas of life in Egypt had to be thrown out—idol worship, being content as slaves, etc..They were stuck in their old mentality.

God instituted holiness through change, culminating in worship of Himself and the creation of the Tabernacle. (Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)

The Lord does not change. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. (Hebrews 13:8) He brings change. He wants an end to sin and old ways of thinking.

This morning I went out to cut down an old dead orange tree in my backyard. I used a smaller battery operated chainsaw. I worked at it, a little at a time, sweat dripping into my eyes, thorns puncturing my calf, but I could not cut it down. I knew I needed something bigger and more powerful. God knows my thoughts. Then my new neighbor came to the rescue with his bigger better chainsaw. In a minute, the tree was cut down to the ground, leaving only a stump. The wood was hard, that’s why my smaller saw couldn’t do the work.

Believers, we cannot save ourselves. No president can save us, no army, no Homeland Security. What will save us is obedience to God. We must humble ourselves to His desire to change us, His Church and this nation. He begins first with His own people, “to the Jew first and then the Gentile.” (Romans 1:16) Like the tree, the old ways are hard and difficult to alter. Like the neighbor man from next door, we need God’s power to do the work. We pray. He does the work.

Hard times cause the Church to turn to God and away from our own strength.

Let us pray for holiness and Godliness first in ourselves, our church and then our country, the United States. And let us pray that His will be done, His purpose be accomplished.

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LAWLESS TIMES

(C) 2020 Kelly Jadon

In Exodus, Mark 2, Church, Holiness, United States Tags church, samaritan's purse, operation christmas child, chainsaw, carebag inc, change
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Jesus Matters First

July 27, 2020 Kelly Jadon
Photo Credit: KH Graf at Pixabay

Photo Credit: KH Graf at Pixabay

When I attended college, at Spring Arbor University in the 1980s, like the typical student, I changed my major a few times. Back then, I really didn’t know what to major in, so I studied what I both liked and knew that I could handle. I became a teacher certified in Secondary English and Music education. What I did know is that God guided my life.

Moses was a man of the Old Testament who was born a Hebrew, under an Egyptian death sentence for male babies. His mother made him a private little ark and cast it away upon the waters. Providence saved Moses when Pharaoh’s daughter, a princess of Egypt, had his the ark pulled from the Nile River. Moses grew up in the courts of the Pharaoh, with privilege, great wealth, and education. God’s providence kept him safe. (Exodus 1-2)

Jesus, the Son of God, was born to the tribe of Judah, in Bethlehem to a virgin. (Luke 1:26-37) Worried about his own power, King Herod implemented a death sentence for male babies. Then Joseph, Mary’s husband, had a dream in the night. An angel of the Lord warned him to get up and take Mary, the Lord’s mother, and baby Jesus, and flee to Egypt. They remained there five years until God called them out of Egypt and back to their original home in Nazareth. (Hosea 11:1) God saved His own Son, Joseph and Mary. Lord Jesus grew up to be the Messiah, the Sent One, in the home of a carpenter in an obscure town, under the care of an adoptive father. God’s providence had kept Him safe in humbleness. (Luke 2, Matthew 2)

Both men became what the Lord called them to be. Moses—a prince. Lord Jesus—a carpenter.

Both men became the leaders of their people. Moses—led his people out of physical bondage and Egypt. (Hosea 11:1)

Lord Jesus led those who followed Him out of spiritual bondage and slavery to the world.

Moses led his people around the wilderness, demonstrating God’s great miracles.

Lord Jesus led His people for three years, demonstrating God’s great miracles.

Moses died and God buried him. (Deuteronomy 34:1-8)

Lord Jesus died and God the Father had arranged for His burial through His providence. (Mark 15:42-47)

Moses lived on spiritually and was seen by Peter, James and John at the Lord’s transfiguration. (Matthew 17:1-13)

Lord Jesus rose from the grave spiritually and physically in a glorified body and was seen by hundreds. (1Corinthians 15:6)

Moses is a type of Lord Jesus Who would come to earth. (Romans 5:14)

Why did God give these types long before Baby Jesus came?

To tell us to watch for Him. Some did. Simeon, Anna the prophetess, the three magi, prophets. .

Jesus’ first coming was that important. He altered the world, permanently.

There is so much turmoil happening in the world today. “Black lives matter (BLM). White lives matter. All people matter.” Even, “animal lives matter.”

But the only thing or person Who truly matters is Lord Jesus. All black, white, red, yellow and brown peoples are His. He is the Creator. (John 1:3-4; Genesis 1:1)

Nations rise and nations fall. Leaders die. Governments become corrupt. Governments are overrun.

But God still is. He does not change.

Before the Earth existed, He was.

Today He is still the great “I AM.” He oversees all things and is sovereign. It is a relief to know that He is in firm control.

No government nor organization will save us, the Church. No president nor elected official can be our savior. Look instead to Lord Jesus, Who sits upon the throne of Heaven.

For peace in this storm of many waves, look to The Lord. He saves. Ask Him to guide you through these trials. He is the only truth and peace that truly exists. Jesus matters first. May His will be done.

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(C) 2020 Kelly Jadon

In Types, Matthew 17, Mark 15, Deuteronomy 34, Exodus, Lord Jesus Tags egypt, moses, Jesus, spring arbor university, Nazareth, providence, God, BLM, church, type
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