A Renewed Beginning
This year I realized that my life
needed refocusing and readjusting. God
engineered circumstances to make that clear to me.
I had pastored in Idaho
until it was time for a new beginning. I
have worked various ministries under my current pastor, but my Parkinson's made
changes in my life. I had gotten involved in PD awareness - not a bad thing. Actually, it was the right thing at the time
for me. However, God has now changed my involvement in the PD arena from
promoting PD awareness back to promoting Jesus awareness. I had received negative motivation to pull
away from PD awareness, and have discovered positive affirmation that this renewed
beginning of returning to Jesus awareness is the correct move (These devotionals
are the result of that).
In today's verses, Jesus knew
what was happening, but the people didn't.
They needed to know why Jesus was going to move on. God revealed both
the positive and negative. It was time for Jesus to increase. It was time to
begin His ministry on earth.
John the Baptist stepped back and
allowed Jesus to increase. The Pharisees had heard that Jesus' popularity was
growing. Jesus knew that they were going to be a problem, soon. He knew they just wanted to cause trouble and
would not listen to Him. The Pharisees were the negative motivation, while the
need in Samaria was the positive
affirmation. Time for a new beginning - Jesus' beginning His earthly ministry.
"When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that
Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself
baptized not, but his disciples,) He left Judaea , and
departed again into Galilee .” John
4:1-3.
© copyright Kevin T Boekhoff
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