Daily Fountain Devotional for Wednesday 13th December 2023
ANGLICAN DAILY FOUNTAIN DEVOTIONAL FOR 13 DECEMBER, 2023
Read and Digest Today’s Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional for December 13th, 2023 written to inspire and bless you!
TOPIC: SIGNS OF THE TIME
TEXT: Matthew 16:1-12(KJV)
16:1. The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
16:2. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
16:3. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
16:4. A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
16:5. And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
16:6. Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
16:7. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
16:8. Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
16:9. Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
16:10. Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
16:11. How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
16:12. Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Anglican Daily Fountain 13th December 2023 STUDY:
“Mum is sick and has been diagnosed with cancer.” Those words from my sister cut through to my heart. As I prayed, it dawned on me that she must be in her ‘last days’; being in her eighties, I knew the end was near. My wife and I caught the next available flight to Lagos with one thing uppermost in our hearts: Go and ensure her salvation. We were able to pray with her.
Thank God we did; she went home soon afterwards. The Pharisees and Sadducees knew how to interpret “the appearance of the sky”, but could not interpret the sings of the times (v.3). In a sense, Jesus was disappointed that they could not correctly interpret the Scriptures concerning Him and the time of the visitation of Israel.
We are expected to be like the sons of Issachar who understood the signs of the times and knew what Israel ought to do. A proper understanding of the times we are living in should tell us that we are in the last days. This should come with a sense of responsibility in relation to the gospel. For one, there should be a higher sense of urgency in proclaiming the gospel and seeking to reach the unsaved. Second, we should be more careful with our own lives, knowing that in the last days, iniquity shall abound and the love of many shall wax cold. Are you getting cold?
PRAYER: Lord, help me to live with the consciousness of eternity in view.
