Scriptural Readings: I Corinthians 1:25, 30; Romans 8:15; Mark 10:27
As the new year ushers in, we also face new challenges. Some people are still having the same struggles and continually looking for new ways to get rid of their difficulties. A lot of us are still having a list of New Year’s resolutions in which some can be accomplished easily, but unfortunately for others, more things are added. Decisions will also rush in and must be taken seriously.
We always have the feeling that we might be doing the wrong things. We have second thoughts, but doing it anyway disregarding the possible consequences. The reasoning we have is the importance of practicing and emphasizing our rights. However, we have to put into our minds that rights are attached to decision making. We do not stop and just depend on our rights. We must be sure if it will work for us or not. It is a decision, a volition God placed in us.
King James Version
I Corinthians 1:25
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
New Living Translation
I Corinthians 1:25
This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.
Rights are born because we make laws. In a sophisticated and complicated way of living, we look forward to making laws and rules to have a more simple and easy way of living. We try to perfect ourselves by making laws. We plan and make our foundations on laws and rights. We make sure of having more laws to fit more of our rights, forgetting the most important thing, morality. As the result, we find living more difficult and impossible. We go back to square one because man-made laws are imperfect.
God made the ten commandments for reflection. No one can accomplish fully the ten commandments. We have to reflect on it. God has given us a conscience where our morality exists. It is in our conscience that morality is contained, telling us that we are disobeying God. If our time is just occupied only by earning money, and sometimes we momentarily set aside our faith in God, who by the way, has given us the time to earn, then we are disobeying the first commandment. It seems money is far more important that we give more time to it, rather than studying the bible and having prayers.
King James Version
v.30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
New Living Translation
v.30 God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.
The only right that we must know and practice is the right to be God’s child. This is the only thing that we have to put in our minds that we are the children of God. When Jesus uttered the words ” It is finished “, this is where we draw the line and say we are God’s children, and we do not belong to what the bible says “you belong to your father the devil”.
The blood of Jesus Christ separated us from being sinners to forgiven sinners. Sending Jesus to be our propitiation is not a law imposed by our Heavenly Father. God the Son became a man and saved us from eternal damnation giving us the right to all the things that our Father will bless us with. What Jesus did on Calvary united us with our Father once again. He freed us from sin, and take note not the sins. It means that we do not have to struggle anymore. He made us pure and holy. We are now co-heir with Him. He made us right with God our Father.
King James Version
Romans 8:15
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
New Living Translation
Romans 8:15
So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”
Crying, Abba father
We Christians need to know the exact status of our relationship with our Father in Heaven. We have the right to call Him Abba Father. Jesus said that when we pray, we must always think about our Father in heaven. We pray and say “Our Father in Heaven…” This is our right, the right that did not come from an imperfect human law. A divine right that can never be wrong. Jesus reconciling us to the Father is the ultimate thing for us believers in Christ. We know by faith and trust that our Father is listening to us, and through His Son Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, everything is possible.
Mark 10:27
Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with God.”