Today’s devotions
The verse in today’s devotional emailer is John 20:30-31 which reads:
“Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” (ESV)
Now as I reads this, 2 thoughts came to mind.
First, that the signs that Jesus did are not all the significant or important. In other words, they were merely a means to an end. The end being to illustrate the basic truth of Christianity – that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God – Jesus is God incarnate.
But before you say, “of course!” Please realize that this point is not as self-evident as you would think. For many Christians today do and believe the complete opposite. There seems today to be an over-emphasis by Christians on the ‘signs and wonders’ that God can and often does. Truly signs are exciting, they were equally exciting to people during the time of Christ too. The point is that what is necessary, what is essential, is only some or a small amount of the ‘signs’ that God can do – the minimum to catch our attention and turn it to Himself.
The second thought that this verse reminded me of is the CD in my car, that I’ve decided to play on my way to work everyday (or almost everyday – still subject to my mood on that particular day). Its by Philip, Craig and Dean. I can’t actually remember the name of the song (these things normally aren’t that important to me) but the words are relevant here.
It starts:
“Lord I wish I could praise You with adequate words, but You leave me speechless…
And I so long to sing You the song You deserve, but it would be endless…”
Of course everything that he said and did were not recorded. Apart from not being necessary (and probably containing stuff that would be rather boring – the mundane stuff like eating, going to the loo, etc – I mean, for most of us, getting through the bible is already a difficult enough task!) I sure none of us would want to have a bible that runs into volumes and volumes (like one of the encyclopedia sets that I’m sure every kid was bought by their parents and never read). God in His “mercy” decided to give us only what we need for salvation and guidance for life. He says its complete and sufficient.
That’s good enough for me, I’m sure it is for you too.
The verse in today’s devotional emailer is John 20:30-31 which reads:
“Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” (ESV)
Now as I reads this, 2 thoughts came to mind.
First, that the signs that Jesus did are not all the significant or important. In other words, they were merely a means to an end. The end being to illustrate the basic truth of Christianity – that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God – Jesus is God incarnate.
But before you say, “of course!” Please realize that this point is not as self-evident as you would think. For many Christians today do and believe the complete opposite. There seems today to be an over-emphasis by Christians on the ‘signs and wonders’ that God can and often does. Truly signs are exciting, they were equally exciting to people during the time of Christ too. The point is that what is necessary, what is essential, is only some or a small amount of the ‘signs’ that God can do – the minimum to catch our attention and turn it to Himself.
The second thought that this verse reminded me of is the CD in my car, that I’ve decided to play on my way to work everyday (or almost everyday – still subject to my mood on that particular day). Its by Philip, Craig and Dean. I can’t actually remember the name of the song (these things normally aren’t that important to me) but the words are relevant here.
It starts:
“Lord I wish I could praise You with adequate words, but You leave me speechless…
And I so long to sing You the song You deserve, but it would be endless…”
Of course everything that he said and did were not recorded. Apart from not being necessary (and probably containing stuff that would be rather boring – the mundane stuff like eating, going to the loo, etc – I mean, for most of us, getting through the bible is already a difficult enough task!) I sure none of us would want to have a bible that runs into volumes and volumes (like one of the encyclopedia sets that I’m sure every kid was bought by their parents and never read). God in His “mercy” decided to give us only what we need for salvation and guidance for life. He says its complete and sufficient.
That’s good enough for me, I’m sure it is for you too.
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