FAITH CAPSULE: Choice outside of God shall always grant entrance to self-destruction.

John 1:1-18, 10: 1-10

The Bible declares in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Definitely the will of God in Christ Jesus for us is to live and not perish. God is not an authoritarian nor a dictator but a good caring creator. The word of God is perfect. God is truly the Commanding commander, Healing healer and an Unchanging changer. God, through His word that is power has demonstrated many times, He is still demonstrating power as a Long-suffering God. God is the Almighty Creator and is proven not to be an authoritarian or a dictator because no dictator can be identified as long-suffering.
Are you one that wants to make wrong choices and engage consequences?
God wants us to live and not perish. Choice outside of God shall always grant entrance to self-destruction. Through Jesus, the will of God for man declared His purpose for man, “…I have come that they many have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) How are you living life and not miss the life which Jesus brought to man? It is important for man to live life according to the will of the Lord of Host, the Ancient of days, the only God that inhabits eternity.
Do you fear Him to live according to His will?
Jesus was quoted from Deuteronomy 8:3, in response to the Satan during the time of wilderness temptations, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”(Matthew 4:4) With the fear of God, we are to live by every word of God not by the word that is only convenient for man. Also to live by the word of world is a set up for self-destruction.
Do you live life by paying attention to the importance of the word of God?
The word of God is the power of God. The power God in the word of God is enough for navigation in the journey of life through wicked world. The power that is in the word of God is the power which created the world. The book of Jeremiah 51:15 stated, “He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and stretched out the heaven by His understanding.” Why not embrace the word of God which created in Genesis chapters 1 and 2 without any hired contractors in creating the earth? Take to the will of God; the word of God without doubt and see the result of His word.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to turn man fully to the living word of God.