Don't Look Down Your Snoot

# 501 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 8:29 “He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to Him, "You are the Christ."

Peter acting as the spokesperson for the disciples here, gives the consensus of the entire group that Jesus can be no one but the Messiah. In Matthews account of this incident Jesus responds to Peter's confession by saying, “Blessed are you Simon Bar Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.” (Mt 16:17)

This is a vital truth in the matter of the gift of faith. We must all learn the total depravity and helplessness of our flesh to even recognize Jesus as our Savior. Our flesh wants nothing to do with the real Jesus! (We'd rather deal with the Jesus of our own making.)

Faith must come to us by the work of God and not our flesh. We read in Joh 1:12,13, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

Whose will? The will of God, not flesh or man.” And in 1Co 12:3b we read, “and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.”

And in Eph 2:8 we read: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,”

What is left then for believers to say? What have we to brag about? How can we possibly lord it over us or think less of them? The next time you see someone trapped in their sins, remember, it really is, “there by the grace of God go I.” and instead of looking down your snoot at them, pray for them, love them, and when the opportunity presents itself, tell them about this great gift given to you. Tell them about Jesus.

Thank You Father for granting me faith and revealing Jesus as the Christ!