Thoughts for another day


September 28, 2010

Today's verse: 1 Tim. 4:4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

What has been declared by God to be clean, can man call dirty? And what is man that he go against God and state things anti of what has been stated by God. This was a lesson Peter received from the Lord in the matter regarding Cornelius who was a gentile yet a believer in Acts 10. Had God not paved the way for Peter to go to him, Peter wouldn't have gone and there would be one less community of Christians; but as it is, Peter went and we know what happened.






God is the One who declares 'things' about things and His declaration is true. No matter what it seem to us to be, God's Word is true and when He says something it is true. Truth is discovered by people who are true which is what Jesus told Pilate concerning the fact that He came to bear witness to the truth and everyone who belonged to the truth, accepted Him! And Pilate who did not understand this simply asked, 'What is truth'.






God has created all and it is well within God's Sovereignty and power to make clean or unclean; this concerns even human beings. In Jesus' time, the Pharisees and Scribes saw many of the Jews as sinners and unclean, but Jesus who made them saw them to be clean. They who had created barriers were upset with Jesus yet, He did not bother about them for He had come to make the unclean, clean. Now whether we take this Scripture literally with regard to food, or extrapolate it to include human beings, or even certain careers or whatever, what God has put in our path, let us accept it with gladness as from the LORD and be grateful. Then will the rising of the sun be witnessed in our lives to fill us with His sunshine at all times.