I am (1) - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

Jesus said to them, Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.
John 8:58.

I am (1)
This verse was the concluding statement of the controversy with the Lord Jesus, in which the Jews denied His deity and heavenly origin. They recognised His words quoted from the Lord's answer to Moses' question as to his authorisation when He approached the children of Israel with the promise of deliverance from their bondage in Egypt: "I am that I am." The Jews acknowledged Moses' mission as God-given, but as soon as Jesus Christ asserted His deity, they showed their true condition of heart. Their opposition and hatred did not restrain them from a murderous intention: they sought to stone the One who was "God manifested in the flesh"

In the 8th chapter of John's gospel the Lord had also spoken of deliverance: "The truth shall make you free. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed" (vv. 32:36). Overlooking the yoke of their Roman masters, His enemies claimed never to have been in bondage, not to mention the bondage of sin that entangled them. Only their Messiah, the Christ of God, could redeem them, but they rejected Him.

How many today are blinded, just as the Jews were then! People will not admit to being held in the powerful grip of sin and refuse the good news of salvation in Christ: yet the Son of God, the Saviour of the world, is the only way of salvation.

Whoever acknowledges his lost state, repents and accepts God's gracious offer of the forgiveness of sin through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus will be filled with admiration and worship at the glory of His Person..

(to be continued next Monday)

Today's reading: Genesis 19:23-38 · Psalms 2:1-6