Who Jesus is

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Monday, December 29, 2008
Devotions: Ps 18; Isa 12:1-6; Rev 1:1-18; Jn 7:37-52

Lord, my Strength, I love You—my Rock, my Fortress, my Deliverer, my Refuge. I call upon YHWH, Who is worthy to be praised, and so I am saved from my enemies. God has delivered me from death again and again. He has rewarded me because of Christ’s righteousness; and He takes down the self-righteous and arrogant. With my God, I can succeed in everything I undertake; He enables me to scale the heights and to keep my feet under me. He makes me strong and brings down my foes. YHWH lives; blessed is my Rock, Who exalts His anointed ones. I will trust God and sing of His goodness. I want to help others know Him! Great is the Lord.

Blessed are all who share the good news! May God’s grace and peace rest on us; and may glory be to Jesus the Messiah, Who by His sacrifice has freed us from our sins and their eternal consequences. He is coming, and every eye will see His coming—those who pierced Him and those who loved Him alike. Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the Almighty One. His Spirit called John, while he was in exile on Patmos, to write to the seven Asian churches what Jesus would reveal to them through him. Jesus appeared to John: clothed in a long robe with a golden sash around His chest, hair white as snow, eyes like flames of fire, feet like burnished bronze, and a voice like the sound of many waters! In His right hand, He held seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword issued from His mouth; and His face ‘was like the sun shining in full strength.’ He was dead and is alive, and He holds the keys to Death and Hades.

At the last and greatest day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus rose and spoke: ‘If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me: as scripture has said, “Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.”’ He was speaking of the Holy Spirit, Who was yet to be poured out upon Jesus’ followers. The listeners were divided over Jesus—some exalted Him, others refused to accept Him as the Messiah. Among the latter were the chief priests and Pharisees: they falsely assumed that Jesus was born in Galilee, and they were certain that no prophet would arise in that region. [False assumptions can lead to calamitous mistakes.]