ICS Daily Devotions
Escaping the Tyranny of Time
Many of us fall into the trap of being under the tyranny of the urgent and yet forget to attend to the most important thing of spending time with God the Father who is waiting in the study room for us.
Despite Jesus’ busy schedule with multitudes following him and His urgency to preach the gospel to every city and village, Jesus always make it a point to strategically withdraw and spend time with the Father.
Mark 1:35 Very early in the morning, whilst it was still dark, Jesus got up. Left the house and went off to a solitary place, where He prayed.
Luke 5:15-16 Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
Solitude with God the Father was such a vital ingredient of Jesus’ own inner life that He could not manage without it. Jesus needed to recharge Himself, and to nourish His Own Spirit so that He could continue to give out to others. If Jesus needed to do so, don’t you think we need to too?
If we cultivate the same habit as Jesus by guarding private time with the Father, it will definitely bring enormous rewards, a healthier lifestyle and also greater clarity in hearing the voice of God.
We can always come to God boldly without any sense of unworthiness and God our Father always welcomes us with joy. This is because all of God’s wrath and judgment towards sin was upon Jesus when Jesus hung on the cross of Calvary
2 Cor 5:21. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be become the righteousness of God IN HIM.
Eph 2:8-9 tell us that we have saved by grace through faith.
Grace is God reaching out to us; faith is us or what we use or need in reaching out to God. It has to work hand-in-hand in order for us to have a proper relationship with the Father.
Rom 8:14-15 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
Have you come to the Father lately? A Word from God extended by His Grace will enable your faith to rise and stand on it and it will cause us to be immovable in the eye of the storm.
Sermon Series: Coming to God the Father, Our Abba Father
