Friday Morning Devotion (Rending the Heavens)

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

(1) Oh that you would tear the sky open and descend,
Mountains would tremble before you in terror!
(2) As flame burns brush,
or fire boils water,
so you would make your fame known to your enemies,
Nations would shake before you!
(3) You performed wonderful miracles that we didn’t expect,
You descended, and mountains trembled before you. — Isaiah 64:1-3

This passage is addressed to people who have very little hope. They look back from the time of exile in Babylon, and they remember the stories of God’s powerful action in the life of Israel. They long to see God act, to see him come and take care of them and restore them.

The desire to see God rend the heavens, or tear the sky open is one drawn from a sense of despair, of the absence of God, of loneliness and hopelessness. Why doesn’t God get busy? Why doesn’t God act?

But let’s look back in Isaiah for another point of view:

(19) Look! I’m doing a new thing!
It’s springing forth right now!
Don’t you recognize it?
I am putting a path in the wilderness,
streams in the desert. — Isaiah 43:19

God is working. Do you recognize it? God is making a path. Are you willing to follow it? God is putting streams in the desert. Are you going to complain because he has not yet made it the Garden of Eden?

The one thing I always remember from Experiencing God is the admonition to look for the place where God is working, and join him. The Israelites in Babylonian exile found themselves in a similar situation. They wanted God to come down and deliver them in a spectacular way.

Instead, he sent Cyrus, whom he called his “anointed one,” to conquer the Babylonian Empire. There were no plagues or opening of seas, but rather Cyrus, voluntarily, as part of the policy of his new empire, freed the Jews.

When they got home, surely there would be miracles! But no, they had to build the temple one stone at a time. They had to build their own houses and do the work of restoring their own country. It’s the constant struggle of God’s people over how much we long for God to do everything, and yet God so often asks us to work.

You can see this very struggle between a minority of Jews who believe that returning to the Holy Land was a mistake, that Israel should not exist until the Messiah comes. The Jews who are actual there in Israel may be making the desert blossom, but that’s not good enough. Unless the Messiah himself shows up and does it, it’s no good. We laugh and wonder what they’re thinking. But in reality they’re just thinking another version of what we do every day. Why doesn’t God miraculously make me wealthy? Why doesn’t God miraculously heal very illness, every decayed tooth, everything that I need fixed in my life.

Now make no mistake, God is capable of doing all those things, and his plan, as we read in the last two chapters of Isaiah, involves his intervention. But if you want to go where God is leading you, you’re going to have to start down the path he puts in the desert. Look for it, recognize it, start walking on it. Because if his plan is for you to walk down a path, he’s not going to provide you with an airplane.

Where is God in the plan for your life today? Will you recognize what he’s trying to do with you and move with it?

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Thursday Morning Devotion (Can God Count on You?)

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

(5) I looked, and there was no one helping,
I was was shocked that nobody provided me support,
so my right arm brought me salvation,
and my fury supported me. — Isaiah 63:5

As Jody has mentioned a couple of times, we’re celebrating Consider Christianity Week. Thinking about our faith, why we believe it, and how we would defend it has brought up a number of thoughts. The question came up in one of our discussions: If you were accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict? Now that’s an old question, and I don’t even know where it got started, but it’s an interesting one.

But the next obvious question is this: What type of evidence should there be that you are a Christian? Does it make any difference?

You may think that’s a “duh” question. But there are numerous different answers. For some people the evidence would come by your attendance at church and church-related activities. Sometimes these same people would only regard your church attendance as good evidence if you make enough noise or do something other than sit in the pew.

Others think the evidence should be entirely in your behavior. How do you treat your neighbors? If you’re a good person, your church attendance doesn’t matter all that much. You’re loving your neighbors, and that’s evidence enough.

Others might think the evidence was based on how many times you say you’re a Christian. Can someone know you for five minutes without being aware of your faith? Ten minutes? A week? For these people it’s the spoken testimony that makes all the difference.

Yet others might ask, “Evidence? What evidence? I was saved when I prayed the sinners prayer, and nobody heard me other than God. What’s it to you?” For them, you could be a Christian without any evidence at all.

There’s a certain amount of truth in all of these. But our verse today puts a different slant on the whole thing. God is looking for the people who are on his side, and he looks around and nobody is helping him. He is working alone, without support. So he saves on his own. Some people would say “Hallelujah!” God gets the job done in spite of us. And doubtless he does that.

But there’s a tragedy when that happens, and this is it: We miss out on the opportunity to play God! Now resist the temptation to get this irreverent devotional off your screen as quickly as possible. By playing God I don’t mean making God’s decisions or pretending to be someone we’re not. I mean that we play God as the body of Jesus Christ (who was God) in the world. We have the privilege of being part of God’s activity. Surely you don’t want to miss out on that?

So when God looks around your workplace today, will he find someone who is providing support for him, who is ready to help? That’s the one evidence God wants!

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Wednesday Morning Devotion ()

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity,… Hebrews 6:1 (NIV)

I do not believe this is a Scripture advocating that I ‘throw out’ John 3:16 because it is a truth that I have known for 20 years and so it is too elementary! I believe this is a Scripture that challenges me to move on and build and grow in my faith. I should not stagnate in what I learned or experienced 12 years ago!

I am a blessed woman to have a mother-in-law who is a woman after God’s own heart! I think it would be safe for me to state that Mom has known that Jesus is her Lord and Savior for over 50 years. She has carried the promises of God in her heart through many miles in the mission field with her husband, raising four children, and evolving in her ministry to the people that God has brought into her path. Her faith has produced much fruit because she has continued to study God’s word. Prayer is a daily ongoing conversation with her Lord. And she has allowed God to train her mind, her spiritual eyes, to see Him in day to day events. She has not stayed in God’s elementary school all of her life! She has grown in God’s ‘higher education’ meaning she has grown in faith. Her faith has muscle because she has allowed God to exercise it! She has a testimony because God has walked her through some tests! (If you want read an awesome story, go to www.energionpubs.com and check out her biographical book, Directed Paths)

It is a dangerous thing for me to become complacent and lazy (yes, I said LAZY!) about my daily study time in God’s word. There are NO shortcuts in growing in my relationship and knowledge of God. I have to put in the time! That requires that I put that time as a TOP PRIORITY in my day!

It is also dangerous for me to spend time ‘in the world’ and hang out with the ‘worldly’ and think that I can maintain much less grow in my faith. I must spend time with God and spend time with those of ‘like minds’. That doesn’t mean I only ‘hang’ with people who always agree with me. I ‘hang’ with people who love the Lord and want to grow in Him and choose to let Him lead!

My life has become exciting and I am filled with expectation because I am consciously choosing to seek God’s way. Every day I ask God to bless me with an obedient heart. And then I must add to that my time with Him, in Word and in listening to Him. God is so gracious and merciful. He loves us so. It is our choice.

My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. Proverbs 2:1-5 (NIV)

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Monday Morning Devotion (Citizen of Heaven)

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven. Philippians 3:17-20

I have just finished a wonderful weekend that began “Consider Christianity Week”. “Consider Christianity” began some 14 years ago when God birthed a ministry to reach out to the non-believer through Eligin and Hannah Hushbeck. (www.consider.org) Easter is the time of the year when our non-believing neighbors, friends, and relatives will come to church as in no other time of the year, even Christmas. (Gift assembly can be a plausible excuse!)

Part of the sermon that I heard on Sunday morning came from this Scripture. It was the final sentence that came like an arrow of truth into my heart: our citizenship is in heaven. I agreed with the carrier of God’s words this Sunday morning. I, too, am proud to be an American, a citizen of these United States. But I have come to realize that my citizenship in heaven, given through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, is even more precious to me. It is forever. And it comes with love and mercy and many more extra-ordinary gifts. I am the child of the King. He is the great I AM.

I am coming to realize who I truly am. Oh, I have ‘known’ who I am for the last 12 years. I’ve read the Scriptures. I’ve even given it some thought and written about it here in these devotions. But in my heart; in my spirit; in that place inside of me where I KNOW and so LIVE my life like I know who I am – well that continues to be the journey that I am traveling. It is a wondrous journey. Heaven is now. It is my reality. I am a citizen of heaven NOW and as I live as that citizen I learn to live in that power and that assurance of God’s love and faithfulness.

For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” spoken by us to the glory of God. Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

2 Corinthians 1:20-22 (emphasis mine)

Look at that! A guarantee! Now if God is giving a guarantee – I bet it is an ETERNAL one!!! God is the one who speaks to me through His Holy Spirit and shows me the TRUTH of Jesus Christ. In that wonderful, simple (but complicated) God-Trinity I see the revealed truth of God’s promises as I read His word and experience His presence in my life.

And here is where I plug in to “Consider Christianity”. I share God’s promises and how He has perfectly given those promises in my life. I share the Good News. It truly has no beginning or end.

Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life. Revelation 22:17

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Friday Morning Devotion (Spiritual Warfare for Me)

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

We are not fighting against people, but rather against authorities, rulers in the darkness of this world, and against highly placed evil spiritual forces. — Ephesians 6:12

1So then, since we are surrounded by such a large crowd of witnesses, let us put aside every impediment and sin that can easily ensnare us and let us run the race which is set before us. 2Let us do these things looking steadily with trust on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who, because of the joy placed before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has now sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3And consider how great the hostility he endured for sinners was, so that you might not grow weary or lose strength. 4You have not yet had to resist as far as bloodshed in your fight against sin, 5and you have forgotten the exhortation that speaks to you as children:

“My son, don’t belittle the Lord’s discipline,
And don’t become weary at his rebuke. 6For whoever the Lord loves he disciplines,
And he punishes every son that he accepts.” [Proverbs 3:11-12] — Hebrews 12:1-5

My wife has some questions about spiritual warfare for our Bible study on Friday night, and I thought I’d get a head start on them today in the devotional.

The key element of spiritual warfare for the author of Hebrews was that we might not go all the way, that we might give up before we got to the goal. This comes up throughout his book. The key element of spiritual warfare, for him, was faithfulness. We often call Hebrews 11 the “faith” chapter, but we could also easily call it the “faithfulness” chapter—it’s the honor roll of people who stayed faithful through terrible difficulties even though the goal was a long ways off.

You can picture this as something of a relay race. They knew that there were generations ahead of them that would have to run, but they had to be faithful running their little piece of the race in their little corner in space and time. And each one was faithful. The final example, presented at the beginning of chapter 12, was Jesus, who remained faithful through the worst torture and death.

So in these passages I think we see spiritual warfare set up simply as the struggle between right and wrong (or good and evil), with “right” involving following Jesus all the way to the goal, and “wrong” being falling short of that goal.

Sometimes we see spiritual warfare as something special that a few prayer warriors do, but that’s not the case. Some are called to spend more time in prayer than others. Some are called to spend more time in the field. Some are called just to stand. But when you choose Jesus and choose to go all the way, not stopping, not giving up, but going all the way to the end, then you have entered into spiritual warfare.

Spiritual warfare doesn’t just take place in prayer. Prayer is important. Prayer is central, because it keeps you in touch with your commander-in-chief. But fellowship is also important because it keeps you in touch with your comrades in arms all around. Obeying God is important, simply because that is part of what’s “right” or “good.”

Remember this: When you signed up with Jesus, you became a spiritual warrior. The only question now is whether you’ll be faithful until you reach the goal.

For more information on spiritual warfare, see the following tracts in the Participatory Study Series: Cosmic Conflict, Spiritual Warfare, Prayer Scriptures for Prayer Warriors, Self-Defense for Prayer Warriors, and So You’re an Intercessor. You can find all of these at http://catalog.participatorystudyseries.com.

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Thursday Morning Devotion (Keep Running to the Finish Line)

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

For Zion’s sake I will not keep quiet,
For Jerusalem’s sake, I will not be still,
Until her righteous shines forth in brilliance,
And her salvation flashes like lightning. — Isaiah 62:1

So leaving the starting point of Christ’s message, let us go forward to perfection {or maturity or completion}, not re-laying the foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith in God . . . — Hebrews 6:1

But now he has been revealed one time for eternal completeness, to set aside sin by means of his sacrifice. — Hebrews 9:26b

I have a number of physical file folders (you know, the type that hold actual paper), recently reorganized, and a similar number of folders on my hard drive with ideas for stories, essays, and books. Until I was reorganizing them recently, I didn’t realize just how many ideas I had with anything from a note through an outline, through many pages of written material.

All of these notes have something in common, however. Not one of them is finished. They are sitting there in their folders, useless to anyone, though potentially useful to me. Unless I finish them, they will never benefit anyone else. Some of them deserve such a fate; I hope that some of them do not!

I’ve chosen the three texts today because of one common thread—finishing what you’re doing.

There are two concepts in Christianity that sometimes seem to be in tension, but they really fit together rather well. The first is repentance. This concept tells us to check the road we’re on and not continue to move forward if we’re on the wrong one. The other is the concept of perfection.

Now we argue frequently about the end point of perfection, but for most us, and certainly for me, arguing about the final stage is kind of moot. We’re nowhere close to needing to worry about just how close to Christian perfection we’ll get in this life. All of us, however, can be on the right road. Thus in practical terms, perfection is a destination, a place to which we are traveling, and not an attainment.

If you’re on that road, these texts are a call for you to keep right on moving forward, never give up, never turn back, and finish the work that you’ve started to do. The world is filled with partially completed projects, just like all those manuscripts in my files. Now I’m not going to quit starting things just because they might collect in folders for some future time. Out of those folders have now come seven books and a stack of articles, and I’m editing on more. But those finished items never just popped out whole. Every one of them required me to schedule time, work on them regularly, and keep on working until I attained that goal.

Too often in our daily lives and also in our church lives we go part of the way toward a goal, and then opposition or discouragement sets in. We decide it’s just too hard, or that the task is impossible. Then we settle for second best or an incomplete job.

Now if we were on the wrong path, doing the wrong thing, or doing it in the wrong place or at the wrong time, then we are called to repentance, a course adjustment toward God’s will. But if our goal is right, and we’re doing it at the right time, we are called upon not to stop until it’s finished.

We’re coming up on holy week, and we’ll commemorate and celebrate what Jesus did for us on the cross, and the resurrection. Would any of this have been valuable had it only been partially completed?

Check your course, then drive on toward the goal.

Extra Reading: Luke 18:1-8

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What are you Wearing?

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

(2) To proclaim the year of YHWH’s favor,
The day of our God’s vengeance,
to comfort those who mourn,
(3) Amongst those who mourn in Zion,
to replace ashes with garlands,
mourner’s tears with oil of joy,
a faded spirit with a cloak of praise,
to call them righteous trees,
planted by YHWH to glorify himself. — Isaiah 61:2-3

It seems I’m not going to get out of Isaiah 61 very easily. I think we have all sung about the day of God’s favor. The language used here is of the year of jubilee, when debts were erased and land returned to families, while the entire nation took a time of rest.

It’s hard for us to imagine the Israelites in exile reading this material. They were at least weeks of travel from home, in a foreign land. Their homeland and all of their farms and property had been destroyed and had been that way for years. Then someone comes along and announces “the year of YHWH’s favor.”

I know of some people who see the church today in spiritual exile, spiritually wearing ashes on her head, spiritless (one word that could be used for “faded spirit” is “colorless”), sorrowful, anything but glorious. Now I see lots of good points, lots of points of light to look at. But if you’re seeing all this failure and falling short, let me ask you something.

Are you going to look down, be gloomy, mourn, and maybe even whine? Or are you going to look up and be the bearer of good news, the impetus of new life, the instrument of transformation for your church and community?

Jesus proclaimed the fulfillment of this scripture in Luke 4:21. You don’t have to wait for the day of God’s favor. Liberation has been proclaimed. The good news is out there. Now what are you going to do about it?

It’s interesting how many of us seem to think that we’re going to transform the world by mourning. There are times to sigh and cry for the abominations in the land (Ezekiel 9:4), but after that there is a time for action (Ezekiel 9:5ff), and there is also a time to proclaim victory. Note also that Ezekiel 9 provides another point that matches Isaiah 61: The proclamation of release and favor also involves the proclamation of vengeance.

Think of this as a hostage crisis. Armed men are holding God’s children hostage. They’ve rigged the building with explosives. They’re pointing machine guns at them. What is the day of release? Well, for God’s children, it removes them from danger and releases them. For the terrorists, it’s a day of vengeance. We try to separate them, but release and vengeance generally go together. But the vengeance is God’s and the proclamation of liberty and release is ours.

This morning, will you put on faded garments of a broken spirit, or will it be garments of praise? Will you allow yourself to be planted by God as a righteous tree for his glory?

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Tuesday Morning Devotion (You are Anointed)

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

YHWH God’s Spirit
has gotten hold of me.
YHWH has anointed me,
to proclaim good news to the oppressed.
He has sent me,
To bind up those who are in despair
To announce release to the prisoners
Liberation for the captives. — Isaiah 61:1

Just to prove that commentators can be fairly boring, the big controversy about this text seems to be just the “I” is in this verse. But while the arguments can be pretty boring, the answer is very important to you and me.

Here are some of the answers:

1. Isaiah himself
2. Israel
3. Jesus as the Messiah
4. The church

Now some of you may remember your Bible well enough to point out that Jesus quoted these verses with reference to himself in Luke 4:18-21, and you are right to do so. But that’s only part of the answer.

You see the Spirit of the Lord was also on Isaiah. It was God’s desire to pour out his Spirit on Israel so that they could be a light to the nations. But there is another fulfillment of this prophecy in Acts 2, when the Holy Spirit came on the church at Pentecost. Peter preached from Joel, but he could easily have preached from this passage. God’s Spirit was on him, empowering him to proclaim good news.

At Pentecost, God’s Spirit came on the church, and each one of us, as members of the church, partake in God’s Spirit. We also—and this is important—partake in the mission to spread good news. We are to act on the anointing the Spirit has placed upon us.

There are no second class citizens in God’s kingdom, but there are also no passengers. Nobody is just along for the ride. God’s anointing is not something that you hang out and enjoy. God anoints you to do something.

Think about this: God has chosen you. You are special. You have a special mission.

Is that the way you live?

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Monday Morning Devotion (Stay Away from Sin)

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

(1) Blessed are those who don’t walk in the counsel of evildoers,
and don’t stand in the path of sinners,
And don’t live where mockers live.
(2) Instead they delight is in the instruction of YHWH,
and in his instruction they meditate day and night.
(3) Such people will be like trees, planted by streams of water,
that give their fruit in season,
whose leaves don’t wither,
and whose every action prospers.
(4)Evildoers are not like this,
but are like the chaff, that the wind drives away.
(5) Because of this evildoers will not rise up in judgment,
Nor sinners in the council of the righteous ones.
(6) Because YHWH knows the way of the righteous folks,
but the way of the wicked will perish. — Psalm 1

Yes, that’s Psalm 1 at the top again.

Friday, we talked about acknowledging God in everything, and this automatically makes every good thing in our lives part of meditating on God and his ways. Yes, God is there when you have fun as well as when you struggle with serious challenges. He’s there in your child’s baseball games and algebra tests. He’s there when you’re in church, and he’s there when you’re arguing with your banker about that loan you need.

Frankly, it’s easy to meditate on God and his ways once you’ve acknowledged his presence everywhere at all times.

But there’s a “don’t” in this Psalm as well. Don’t follow the counsel of evildoers, don’t stand in the path of sinners, don’t live where mockers live. Part of this is simply running away from temptation. We really have a hard time with this. We want to get as close as possible to sin. That’s a very dangerous plan, but it’s a very human one. We truly like to wish for things, even things we know we cannot and should not have.

But let me take this a step further. When you think about others do you think primarily about their good points and how you can encourage them, or about their bad points and how you can correct them? If your answer is “primarily about their good points” does that apply to your children? (Got some of you there, didn’t I?) When you pray, do you primarily rebuke evil or do you primarily praise and thank God and speak blessings? Would you prefer to go into the inner city and rebuke them for addictions and sinful behavior, or would you rather go love them and provide a good example of a life dedicated to Jesus?

Now I’m the last person to challenge rebuke. I think there’s an important place in the church for rebuke and correction. But rebuke and correction works best amongst friends, members of the same family. Even there it needs to occur only in the appropriate place.

When we put our focus on evil, even if only to rebuke and challenge it, we’re already taking a step away from where we’re supposed to be. We’re supposed to be planted by the living waters, taking up God’s life and bearing fruit. If that is happening, the need for other things will grow less and less.

Let’s determine in the coming week to put our focus on God and the good things he has done and will do.

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Friday Morning Devotion (God in Everything)

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

(1) Blessed are those who don’t walk in the counsel of evildoers,
and don’t stand in the path of sinners,
And don’t live where mockers live.
(2) Instead they delight is in the instruction of YHWH,
and in his instruction they meditate day and night.
(3) Such people will be like trees, planted by streams of water,
that give their fruit in season,
whose leaves don’t wither,
and whose every action prospers.
(4) Evildoers are not like this,
but are like the chaff, that the wind drives away.
(5) Because of this evildoers will not rise up in judgment,
Nor sinners in the council of the righteous ones.
(6) Because YHWH knows the way of the righteous folks,
but the way of the wicked will perish. — Psalm 1

What are you thinking about? Were you thinking about God’s instructions just before you started to read this devotional? Tough one, no?

There are so many things to think about in a day that it’s very tempting to write off Psalm 1 as just a sort of pious dream, something that’s good for the occasional monk or hermit, but not really something that’s practically important to me.

But if we take verse 6 seriously, then we know that God will be with us if we’re righteous, and our way will perish, a euphemism for failure and death, if otherwise. And the second verse says that a characteristic of righteous people is that they take delight in God’s instruction and meditate in it day and night. I risked some clumsiness in the translation in order to make sure that you realize that both halves of verse two use the same word. It’s an emphasis in the Hebrew text.

So what do I do? Well, let’s start by asking a couple of questions. First, do you know God’s instruction? Do you know what’s in the Bible and what isn’t? It’s a serious question. My personal experience leads me to believe that many people who are very pious about “doing everything that the Bible says” actually have very little idea what the Bible says.

According to a Washington Post story, based on research collected by Stephen Prothero in his book What Every American Needs to Know — and Doesn’t,

Americans are also the most religiously ignorant people in the Western world. Fewer than half of us can identify Genesis as the first book of the Bible, and only one third know that Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount.

So if we have little idea what God’s instruction actually says, we are hardly going to be able to meditate on it day and night, are we?

But let’s look at a different question. When you’re confronted with a difficult decision, is your first question what God would want you to do, or “What would Jesus do?” Is your main desire to walk in God’s paths? I think that’s more important than figuring out your “day and night” time on the clock. In fact, I don’t even think this verse is talking about having a scripture verse in your mind at all times.

“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” — Proverbs 3:6

There is nothing out there that won’t tell you something about God if you get your attitude straight by acknowledging God first. I think I feel another series coming on, a good one to follow up on Isaiah 55. How can I be a fruitful, well-watered tree?

Step one: Acknowledge God in everything. If your busy life won’t let you spend all your time on God, then just make everything else be about God!

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