Reformed Doctrine Daily Devotions

Today’s devotion comes from Revelation 2:18-29.

 

“¹⁸ “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write:

 

The Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like burnished bronze, says this:

 

¹⁹ ‘I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first.  ²⁰ But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.  ²¹ I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality. ²² Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds.  ²³ And I will kill her children with pestilence, and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.  ²⁴ But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them—I place no other burden on you. ²⁵ Nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I come.  ²⁶ He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations;  ²⁷ and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father;  ²⁸ and I will give him the morning star.  ²⁹ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”  Revelation 2:18-29.

                                          

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“The Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire …  I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.”  Verses 18 and 23.

Today’s devotion reminds us of the piercing view of our Lord into our minds and hearts.  Nothing is hidden from His sight.

We may think that we are quite clever in hiding our tolerance for ungodly things that we should not tolerate.  We don’t openly praise those things, but we secretly support those things by asking questions or doing other things that give the proponents of those ungodly things a platform of respect.  And, we seem fair and reasonable when we secretly oppose those who resist those ungodly things.  We are only asking for a fair hearing.  We delay discipline.  We obscure transgressions by pointing blame to other things.  We call it love. 

 “² The kings of the earth take their stand
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
³ “Let us tear their fetters apart
And cast away their cords from us!”