Category: Devotion of the Day

ENDLESS QUEST

Ever learning, and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
II Timothy 3:7

When we come to a decision about a spiritual matter, Satan would worry us and keep us in fear that perhaps we did not do right. But never to come to a decision is still worse unbelief than to come with weak faith. To settle a matter as best one knows how in accordance with Scripture, even though one’s cry is, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief,” is certainly nearer the truth than not to come at all. Christ will receive all who come. In the Gospels they simply came, and He commended their faith when they thought they had little.

What pleases God is faith, and the weakest faith is better than no faith. Faith does not look at itself. One does not see sight by closing his eyes and looking around on the inside of his head. He looks at something, and what he sees confirms the fact that he has sight. Looking unto Jesus we find that He meets our need and proves that we have faith.

“Ever learning” is not the way to truth. Look and live and learn as you go.

RICH AND HEALTHY

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as they soul prospereth.
III John 2

John is not conditioning Gaius’ prosperity and health on the state of his soul, but rather is assuming his soul’s prosperity as a fact. Nevertheless, it is true that God wants no man to be richer than his soul, and the spiritual condition is the true gauge of a man’s real success. No man with a sick soul is really prosperous. Even the medical world stresses as never before the connection between health and religion.

Prosperity, health, and spirituality are here joined, and well they may be. The man who is right with God and men is in a fair way to being in good health. Even if the outer man decay, the inner man is renewed from day to day. And a new body is guaranteed as part of his salvation. And prosperity is assured, for whatsoever the righteous man doeth shall prosper. The man who is rich toward God is truly rich, and he who is healthy in his soul is truly healthy. Along with it, we shall have such material prosperity and physical health as we need – and why should we want more?