Weekly teaching devotionals by Rev. Kola & Funke Ewuosho
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This week's teaching devotional:
20th January 2025God sees the heart while men look on our outward appearance. What God sees are our motives and focus. He actually judges us based on these. Part of the purpose of the process we go through in God is to allow us to see our motives, so we can allow the purifying power of repentance from dead works to have its effect. In Hebrews 12:1-2, we see three aspects of God"s will.
1. The race is already marked out for us. We do not get to define our race or the path we run on.
2. We are to look unto Jesus as our pattern and inspiration.
3. He who started is also able to finish what He started in us. He is the author and finisher of our faith. As we look to Him we see that His motivation was to do the will of the Father-God.
Hebrews 10:5-10 clearly shows that He was motivated by a desire to please the Father by doing His will. Again we see that the path He took was discovered in the Scriptures and the final deal involved the laying down or sacrifice of His body. Being the pattern Son, our focus should be on Him and our motive should be like His. He loved, obeyed and was sold out on pleasing the Father.
Wisdom Key: We do not get to define our race or the path we run on
Memory Verse: "Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God" Heb 12:1-2.
Life Application: Like Jesus, we need to be motivated by a desire to please the Father by doing His will. How can we practically cultivate the desire to do the will of God?
