Still Taunting Christ?

Focus: Matthew 26:67-68 - KJV

67. Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, 68. Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?

Luke 22:63-65

Faith in Christ is borne out of not seeing Him, but hearing about Him and His deeds and yet, believing in Him and holding on to His tenets. In His days on earth, many, who neither saw nor heard the prophets of old directly, believed in those prophets and refused to believe Him, thereby taunting their Lord in their ignorance. Today, many neither see Him nor those whose words they prefer to believe, and yet, fail to decipher the truth from the separate narratives given to them. And, they have chosen to spit some more upon the one who offers them life, and to obey those who have nothing to offer them. To turn against the word of God is worse than what the physically present beings at the time of the prosecution of Christ did spitting in His face, slapping Him and asking Him to prophesy to them about their actions.

Many out there today, knowing the truth about God’s intentions and demands concerning them and His ministry, pretend not to know. They even go kneeling and asking God almost like mocking Him, that He tells them what wrong they have done to deserve their states in life. Meanwhile, they remain disobedient to the heavenly vision given unto them. They do so to taunt Christ asking Him to prophesy knowing already the evil they have done. God is never mocked. Peter knew, quite frankly that he was ordained of Christ to be a fisher of men. He abandoned that ordination to return to the sea to fish. When Christ asked him pointedly if he did love Him, he naturally assumed love was a lipservice affair. But Christ’s persistent querying made it clear to him that he had issues with loving Christ. He, more like, taunted Him by going back to fishing and taking others with him, who should have been his lieutenants in fishing for men.

The Lord is saying to us today that we should stop being rhetorical in matters that we do know the mind of God. When we do so, we make the Omniscient God appear like He does not know what our minds are in issues that are open and glaring to Him. Let everyone return to his post as ordained of God and stop slapping Christ in the face why pretending not to know, and asking Him to prophesy who did slap Him, the devil or ourselves. The earlier we start getting serious about Kingdom affairs, the better for us all.

Please receive these declarations:

For every user of this Devotional, from this new day, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you will begin to do right and never taunt the Lord again, in any of your affairs; wherever you had taunted Him in the past, the blood that He shed for you on the cross will avail for you, in Jesus’ name. Whatever it is the Lord requires of you, He will make His angels minister unto you to aid your performance and never to fail, in Jesus’ name. You will never be guilty of messing up with the Creator, in Jesus’ name. Any time you call upon the Lord, you will never be allowed to ask amiss again, and all the outstanding answers to your past requests are granted you, now, in Jesus’ name.

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