THE LAMP DEVOTION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4
FOCUS ON THE ETERNAL
John 6:26-29
If there ever was an issue that humanity has struggled with since the Fall, it is our drive towards the fleshly and temporal, as against desiring the spiritual and the heavenly. Jesus had spent days teaching the people the principles of the kingdom. Then He comes to the other side and the people met Him and said they were looking for Him. Jesus immediately knew their hearts and addressed their problem.
They were looking for Jesus because of the loaves and fishes He blessed to feed them. Don’t we have the same happening in our world today? It is obvious that our hearts move more towards what we can get today to satisfy our flesh than yearn for the things of the kingdom. Most people today come to God more for their physical needs than knowing and having fellowship with God.
Whenever you hear of large gatherings being advertised, you can be sure that the purpose is to address people’s basic needs. Thus Christianity is reduced to chasing after the needs of the body – health, money and material things.
Jesus instructed on the alternative – labor not for the food which perishes, but for the food that endures to everlasting life. Let’s seek the kingdom of God first, like Jesus taught.
Prayer
1. Thank God for the gift of eternal life in Christ and abundant life on earth.
2. Pray that you will place more emphasis on the eternal than the temporal.
3. Father, please help me fix my attention on things above and not on things below.
Declarations
I declare that I have eternal life in Jesus Christ. This life is superior to any form of life that is temporal. I live currently on earth, but my home is heaven with Jesus one day. My focus now is more on life with Jesus one day. I declare that eternity is my ultimate goal. Halleluiah!
Author: Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4
FOCUS ON THE ETERNAL
John 6:26-29
26 Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.” 28 Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
If there ever was an issue that humanity has struggled with since the Fall, it is our drive towards the fleshly and temporal, as against desiring the spiritual and the heavenly. Jesus had spent days teaching the people the principles of the kingdom. Then He comes to the other side and the people met Him and said they were looking for Him. Jesus immediately knew their hearts and addressed their problem.
They were looking for Jesus because of the loaves and fishes He blessed to feed them. Don’t we have the same happening in our world today? It is obvious that our hearts move more towards what we can get today to satisfy our flesh than yearn for the things of the kingdom. Most people today come to God more for their physical needs than knowing and having fellowship with God.
Whenever you hear of large gatherings being advertised, you can be sure that the purpose is to address people’s basic needs. Thus Christianity is reduced to chasing after the needs of the body – health, money and material things.
Jesus instructed on the alternative – labor not for the food which perishes, but for the food that endures to everlasting life. Let’s seek the kingdom of God first, like Jesus taught.
Prayer
1. Thank God for the gift of eternal life in Christ and abundant life on earth.
2. Pray that you will place more emphasis on the eternal than the temporal.
3. Father, please help me fix my attention on things above and not on things below.
Declarations
I declare that I have eternal life in Jesus Christ. This life is superior to any form of life that is temporal. I live currently on earth, but my home is heaven with Jesus one day. My focus now is more on life with Jesus one day. I declare that eternity is my ultimate goal. Halleluiah!
Author: Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams
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