Prayer: Father, I pray for my dominant wrist this morning. It feels like I have sprained my wrist, yet I am not aware of injuring myself. I pray for relief and healing. In the name of Yeshua. I praise You for a wonderfully sunny day! Amen.
Reading: Job 10 key: vs. 1-2
“I loathe my own life;
I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak out of the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
tell me why You contend with me.’
Attention: It is a dark place when we have come so low that we despise our own life. When we begin to feel that even God is against us. I want to assure you that God is for you. I want to give you a couple of scriptures to confirm that God is for you.
The first example is found in John 8: 1-11 where Jesus crosses the path of a woman “caught in adultery.” She is brought to Jesus by the religious rulers and cast before Him. Charges are levied and they recite the Torah and the consequences for such actions, demanding Jesus to reveal His position. He kneels and begins writing in the dirt. The accusers continue to drill Jesus. He stands and asks one question, “The sinless one among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” He kneels again and continues “writing on the ground.” One my one, they begin to leave, “until Yeshua was left alone with the woman in the middle. Yeshua said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you? She responds, “No one, Sir.” Yeshua responds, “Then neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more.”
John recorded Yeshua earlier in his letter as saying, “God did not send the Son (Himself) into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him. The one who believes in Him is not condemned; but whoever does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not put his trust in the name of the one and only Ben-Elohim” (3:17-18).
Paul says it this way, “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Messiah Yeshua” (Romans 8:1).
Let us stop condemning ourselves. Let us stop condemning one another. There is grace and mercy available to everyone in Yeshua Messiah.
Action: Lord, may I apply mercy where mercy is needed.
Yield: Giving over any perceived rights to condemn and applying mercy.
Engaged: I am engaged when I apply mercy rather than condemn.
Relationship: Doing life with Yeshua and those around me.
Prayer: Father, thank You for the example of Jesus’ interaction with the religious in applying mercy to a woman in need. May I be merciful to others and myself. In Yeshua’s name above all names. Amen.
Memory verse: Jacob (James) 2:13
13 For judgment is merciless to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Music Video: Don Moen—No Condemnation
Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”