the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Luke 6:39-49
If a little particle of dust settles on the lens of a microscope it becomes impossible to see through it. The strange thing about us is that the opposite is true! The bigger the beam in our eye, the easier it is to recognise the smallest speck in our brother’s eye.
In v. 46, the Lord Jesus asks a question which should make us all stop and think: "Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" Do we not often take the name of the Lord Jesus very lightly and very inconsistently to our lips when we are praying? We have no right to call Him Lord if we are not prepared to do His will in all that we do (1 John 2:4). Many children of Christian parents, through grace, have accepted the Lord Jesus as their Saviour; but since they do not also recognise His authority as Lord, can we say that they have really turned to Him? True Christianity involves a life no longer lived for self but for the One who died for us, to serve Him and to wait for Him (1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; 2 Corinthians 5:15).
To build our hopes "on the earth" is to head for great ruin (v. 49). Yes, let us go to the Lord Jesus, let us listen to His words, and let us put them into practice (v. 47).
