The Messenger

 DEVOTION

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW

THE MESSENGER

 

Matt 11:7-10

7 As John's disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? 8 If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in kings' palaces. 9 Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. 10 This is the one about whom it is written: "'I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'  

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It is interesting that Jesus asked these questions of the crowd, but it is also interesting those questions could apply to people today. It is not that anyone is searching for John the Baptist, going out into the wilderness to hear a prophet, however, people are looking for something. There is a large contingency of people who are searching for the answers to how life began. There are so many theories on how the universe began. This big bang theory is the most bazaar of them all. Those who want that theory to be fact would have us believe that all of the unknown numbers of stars, which are the same as our sun, all exploded from one spot in the middle of nothing. Others are looking at stones and want us to believe they found stones that are sixty-billon years old. People are out in the world looking for any other way to explain everything through the mind of man. This latest theory regarding dinosaurs and their disappearance says they evolved over billions of years into birds. They are all looking for something to prove there is no God, and yet this whole world and the universe are just like John the Baptist in the sense it is pointing the way to Jesus. This world is a messenger to people declaring the way for the Lord. Anyone who wants the answer to life can find it within the bible, for it is a record of man’s encounter with the divine creator of all that is. This record that has been kept safe and pure includes both eyewitness accounts of personal encounters with God the Father and Jesus the Son, as well as words that were inspired by the Spirit regarding the personality of God and His will for His creation, and ultimately the purpose of our lives. All the searching of the relics of this planet should lead people directly to God, but they are blinded by their own futile thinking. We have said this before, and we are convinced this is an accurate description of the science so many what to put their faith in. science is simply man discovering what God has established. The problem is they want to use it to disprove God did create everything that has ever been made. No, this world, and all the universe, is the messenger that was sent ahead of the one He sent, and it has been and will continue to point man toward Jesus.