Chester ARP Devotional Podcast Clint Davis

Jesus came to reveal God's character and save us from our sins. We are to trust and follow him to have eternal life. 

The Greek Jews wished to have a meeting with Jesus. Jesus told Andrew and Philip that the Greeks could find him through a life of self-sacrifice and following him. They needed to devote themselves to him, be a part of his people, and follow him to his cross in self-sacrifice. The same is true for us. 

The Jews grew in their disdain for Jesus as the crowd around him grew. When he entered Jerusalem for his third and final Passover celebration, the tension between the Pharisees and Jesus hit a fever pitch. They were ready to kill him, but the crowd welcomed him as their king. 

Mary was genuinely devoted to the Lord. She loved him, adored him, and showed it when she anointed him with expensive perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. We should be as devoted. 

Jesus stood by Lazarus's tomb and told Martha that if she believed, she would see the glory of God. She was too focused on all the limitations instead of the possibilities of Christ's power. 

Jesus wept by the tomb of Lazarus. Why? He loved Lazarus and his sisters, Martha and Mary. He hurts for them because they had to deal with the full effects of the fall of man. Death is painful to all of us, even Jesus.