Thoughts for Saturday April 4
As I read this devotional, I thought about how difficult it is oftentimes when evangelizing to Jews. Often times I think about how the Scriptures are so plain and clear that knowing what they know of the OT, Jesus as fulfillment of the Messiah prophecies should be obvious. Yet we see even on the road to Emmaus, even after Jesus died, and testimony of his resurrection had begin to spread, these Jews were still in unbelief, clinging onto their hope of the Messiah as a earthly king.
But I can't really be too harsh, after all I think the Jews in many ways have been blinded as fulfillment of prophecy, and their past hurts and circumstances have led them astray even when Jesus came to proclaim Himself as Messiah.
This got me thinking about the poor and the homeless for some reason. Though God has been softening my heart, its still hard for me to have compassion on people like the homeless, or people who beg, or people who generally do disagreeable things like steal, rape, kill, etc. I have to believe that, something in their lives has turned them like this, whether it was a broken family, or being sexually assaulted in their own lives, or even just learning that the world treats them like dirt and so they treat the world like dirt too. Can I really blame them for their cynicism and jadedness?
Prior experiences shape future expectations.
It is only the gospel that can heal past wounds, the gospel that can reclaim those lost years, the gospel that saves lives. I only have to look at my own life to see how true and transformative that resurrection gospel can be.
Lord, help me to see from their perspective of brokenness. Help me to see from my perspective of brokenness.
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