CONTEXT
Kingdom
Kids devotions authorize Jesus’ LORDship
over our lives.
Genesis
12-25:18
Sarah’s
life
Genesis
23:1: “Sarah lived to be 127 years old.”
What Interceding
Means devotion shows how Jesus “dresses up” our prayers so that they’re correctly
framed to present to the Father.
Context [KON-text] is the frame (setting or perspective) that
shows the whole picture.
Jewish scholars claim that all Sarah’s days were “good.” That’s outrageous! Did Sarah maintain a cheerful attitude every
day? Was Sarah never sad? Was Sarah perfect?
Context. Sarah
understood who she was and where she was headed. Sarah learned from all her mistakes and grew
spiritually after messing up.
The lesson linked below shows the difficulties and
heartaches that Sarah faced. Life was
anything but wonderful for Sarah. The
lesson also shows what her actions cost.
Each outcome was dreadful. Yet
Sarah always rose to the top because she grew spiritually after each mistake
she made.
If your life streamed live, would others judge it to be “good?”
Sarah was beautiful (Genesis 12:11). Because she was unable to have kids, Sarah
“lost it” when her handmaid (Hagar) rubbed her pregnancy in Sarah’s face (Genesis
16:4). An angel showed that Sarah lied
(Genesis 18:12-15).
We’d judge Sarah’s life as awful.
God boils down the word “good” to a single benchmark:
what was learned?
Take Home Nugget
God judges the context of our lives by
growth. If we most value what we
gained—money, position, or fame—as life’s context, we’re worthless. The frame chosen for our lives is straw!
Life
streaming shows how people change. It
shows learning. Believers-in-Christ want
our lives to show spiritual growth. The
streamed film is the context, or whole picture.
Sarah earned an “A” in life’s classroom and is why her life is judged
“good.”
Sarah met the highest standard. God measured each of Sarah’s spiritual growth
higher than the one before.
A cigarette butt mounted on a black
velvet stand enclosed in a golden frame won
the art contest. Its owner wants
to teach art students the value of a frame. This is true about life. How others judge our life’s context is
determined by how it’s framed.
Sarah learned from everything and
everyone who crossed her path. She
framed her life’s context in gold that withstood God’s fiery furnace (1
Corinthians 3:11-13). \
The day Jesus returns, our works will be
revealed. We can busily re frame our
life’s context now and for the future to reveal how much we’ve learned. For each remaining day we have on earth, we
can continue to grow spiritually.
Will your life’s context framed in gold
be revealed as a masterpiece!
Holy
Father, lay Jesus as our foundation and empower us to grow in Him through each
problem, in His name we pray, Amen.
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