{"id":473169,"date":"2025-02-28T02:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=473169"},"modified":"2025-02-28T02:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:17:23","slug":"do-you-now-believe-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/do-you-now-believe-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Now Believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now we can see that you know all things \u2026 This makes us believe. \u2014 John 16:30-31<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the disciples finally told Jesus that they believed he was the Son of God, Jesus replied with skepticism: \u201cDo you now believe? \u2026 You will leave me all alone\u201d (John 16:31\u201332). Many Christians leave Jesus alone as they go about their work. They\u2019re motivated by their conscience or a sense of duty, but their souls aren\u2019t in intimate contact with their Lord; they\u2019re leaning on their own understanding. It isn\u2019t a sin to work for God in this way, and there\u2019s no punishment attached to it, but when we catch ourselves acting like this, when we realize we\u2019ve grown distant from Jesus and produced confusion and sadness for ourselves, we come back to him with shame and contrition.
We need to learn to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus on a much deeper level, to get into the habit of steadily referring everything back to him. We make decisions based on common sense, then ask God to bless those decisions. He cannot. Common sense is not in God\u2019s domain; it is severed from divine reality. Common sense tells us that duty and moral obligation should be our guides. \u201cI must do this; conscience compels me,\u201d we say, haughtily. A decision based on common sense can always be backed up by an argument like this. But when we do something purely out of obedience to the Lord, no commonsense argument is possible. That\u2019s why obedience is so easy to ridicule.
If we don\u2019t want to leave Jesus alone, we must be willing to be ridiculed for his sake. We aren\u2019t told to walk in the light of conscience or of duty; we\u2019re told to walk in the light as God is in the light (1 John 1:7).
By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now we can see that you know all things \u2026 This makes us believe. \u2014 John 16:30-31 When the disciples finally told Jesus that they believed he was the Son of God, Jesus replied with skepticism: \u201cDo you now believe? \u2026 You will leave me all alone\u201d (John 16:31\u201332). Many Christians leave Jesus alone as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}