Luke 11:29-32 Our Response to God's Faithfulness

As the crowds were increasing, He began to say, “This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.  For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.  The Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.  The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

A central truth in Bible teaching says that we are to walk by faith and not by sight.  Jesus teaches elsewhere that if we seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, all worldly blessing will be ours as well.  This was a lesson learned well by Job.  Job was put to the test by removing all his worldly belongings and his health to see if he would trust God, and when he did, multiplied earthly blessings were measured to him as well.  The point of the Sermon on the Mount is that views us more by our inward motives that the work of our hand.  In this way, blessedness is appointed to us by the measure that we place our lives in God’s hand because the one who does is righteous in God’s eyes.

Daily Prayer:  Lord Jesus, remove whatever barriers that come between my full surrender to You.  Let me place my hands in Your hands because Your hands are sure and can do all that they purpose to do.  In Your holy name I pray Amen.