Think about God

From yesterday's morning devotion 

Topic: Think about God

How can we think about God when we do not know who God is or how He looks like since we have never seen Him before? We only know that He lived slightly more than 2000 years ago, was born in Bethlehem, His earthly parents were Mary and Joseph. We know that Jesus came to earth with a mission – a mission to tell everyone of us to live a life that imitates His love so that we can enter through the gates of heaven at the end of our lives and enjoy happiness forever. To tell us this message and to show to us an example of how to live such a life, He Himself accepted, willingly, the suffering and death caused by sinful, jealous, greedy and insecure man. And He calls us to turn away from sin, to do good and not evil.

When Jesus was suffering and was hanging on the cross, dying, He thought about each one of us. He could have easily said He cannot be bothered about us since it is our own fault that we choose to sin. He could have called upon His Father in heaven to save Him from all those suffering and death. But He chose, instead, to go through it all for our sake.

To think about God is to think about how we behave every day, to think about the things we say and do. Before we say something or do something, think about Jesus. Before you choose not to hand in your homework punctually, do your corrections properly, before you choose to call your classmate a nasty name, think about Jesus, think about your teachers, your parents, your classmates. Before we gossip about someone else, before we backstab someone, before we utter a lie, before we think too highly of ourselves and treat other people like they are not as intelligent and capable as ourselves, think about Jesus; think about Him and choose. We cannot leave our daily actions to a matter of chance or convenience. Everyday, we choose continuously the life we want to live. If we do not have the right focus, if we do not think of Jesus and remember the goodness He wants us to live our lives by, we will surely find ourselves making many wrong decisions. Let us pray that we will take God more seriously and find strength in the Lord to live good lives.

Uploaded on Friday 6 May 2011

9.09am