Shema
CF Ambassador
An Emoji devotional for Tue 18th January 2022
Topic: Your Five Brothers
Highlights:
for I have five brothers— in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ Luke 16:28
You have five fingers on each hands and five toes each feat. Those are likely your five brothers and sisters- think about it. In this life, Whatever you have done today is done by your hands. You have your five senses which are your mouth, ear, nose, tongue, skin and eyes ... those are what defines you. But Your fingers and toes are your brothers and sisters accompanying you in life.. After you make your choice, the hands and foot will accompany you to your destiny.
Some are in depression, pain, agony because of self indulgences with their brothers and sisters while others and in praise, reward and celebration because their five brothers and sisters were disciplined.
In the above highlight the story began from Luke 16:19-31, a rich man and poor Lazarus were living close to each other. The rich uses his ten fingers to eat, drink and spend lavishly on whatever. He forgot to feed His conscience - Lazarus. When he died, Lazarus died with him. He saw Lazarus in heaven but his real self in hell. That could have been him on Abraham Bossom if he had done good deeds with his hands when he was on earth.
So he was in torment of hell and the first thing he remembered was his hands in hell. Listen to this, if the rich man had done good deeds while on earth, his conscience would have lead him to heaven. So the rich man asked that at least Lazarus (his abandoned conscience) could dip his hands in water and put a tip on his tongue (His five senses were still with him in hell). Abraham answered, “My friend, remember that while you lived, you had everything good, and Lazarus had everything bad. Now he is happy, and you are in pain. And besides, there is a deep ditch between us, and no one from either side can cross over.”
But the rich man said, “Abraham, then please send Lazarus to my father's home. Let him warn my five brothers, so they won't come to this horrible place.”
Luke 16:25-28
The rich man's five brothers were the work of his hands. Those things he had done while he left the earth. His friends and fans were still following his lavish ways - living without conscience. Today, so many politicians are gone but their corrupt practices were still there. The rich man wants someone with good conscience like Lazarus to go and warn his five brothers. Abraham answered, “Your brothers can read what Moses and the prophets wrote. They should pay attention to that.” Then the rich man said, “No, that's not enough! If only someone from the dead would go to them, they would listen and turn to God.” So Abraham said, “If they won't pay attention to Moses and the prophets, they won't listen even to someone who comes back from the dead.”
Luke 16:29-31
Today, you have the word of life from Jesus Christ in the Holy Bible that can still purify your conscience for all the stuff you are doing with your hands. If you did not take care of your conscience and you abandoned it for the riches of this world because of your self gain. One day your when you die, your conscience will leave you and go back to Abraham's Bossom while you rot in torment of hell (I pray that it will not be so for you).
If you call yourself the son of Abraham, you must follow God in total obedience and maintain a clean conscience before God and man.
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. Act 24:16
And if you are someone who is following others people (celebrity, pornstar, politicians etc) remember that those steps your are following are made by men whose ways may not be pleasing with God. And Your conscience is watching you in all you do.
Psalm 1: 1-2 says
God blesses those people who refuse evil advice and won't follow sinners or join in sneering at God. Instead, they find happiness in the Teaching of the Lord, and they think about it day and night.
It is time to cross examine yourself and make amendment. if you know all these things and still refuse to do the right thing - Your conscience will judge on the fateful day of judgement. Remember, your life is important that food and cloth. Only people who don't know God are always worrying about such things. Your Father in heaven knows you need all of these. But more than anything else, put God's work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well. Don't worry about tomorrow. It will take care of itself. You have enough to worry about today.
Matthew 6:32-34
Prayer: Father in heaven please purify my conscience with the blood of Jesus. Amen.
