Daily Devotions
Luke
Luke 1:1-4 "IT SEEMED GOOD TO ME ALSO..." Luke 1:3"
Day 6 – Luke 1
Text: Luke 1:1-4
“IT SEEMED GOOD TO ME ALSO…” Luke 1:3
We do not need some “special inspiration” from God to begin taking our faith seriously. Luke wrote about how he came to write his “narrative.”
1. There were already others who had made such an attempt.
2. There were many remarkable things about the Christian faith that just had to be chronicled, especially events which “fulfilled” prophetic Scripture.
3. Then there were the “eyewitnesses and ministers of the word” and they impacted many by their lives and through their ministry of the Word.
When all these things were taken into careful consideration, and when they were allowed to dominate the heart and mind, the conclusion was inevitable. Luke was not just a “hearer.” He was a “doer” of the Word. He was not going to just enjoy feeling inspired. He wanted to do something definite and concrete with his understanding of faith. “It seemed good to me…” so Luke wrote, and in these simple words, we catch a glimpse of the process of how faith can and should impact the life of the believer.
The Word of God must fill the heart and mind in such a way that the believer feels convinced that he must do something for the Lord. On the one hand, there is the Lord reaching out to us, but on the other hand, there must also be appropriate responses from us. Luke sought to understand his faith. His knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ impacted him so deeply, that he felt that it was his turn to share his faith with others!
“HAVING HAD PERFECT UNDERSTANDING OF ALL THINGS…” Luke 1:3
Luke is a good example of how a Christian should grow his faith in the Lord Jesus. We were never meant to be “babes in Christ” throughout our life. We were meant to grow to full maturity in our faith. We were all meant to work towards “perfect understanding of all things.”
Let us be encouraged by other New Testament writers concerning this subject of growing our faith and our understanding of all things.
From the Apostle Peter:-
“As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the Word, that you my grow thereby”
1 Peter 2:2
“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
For if these things are yours and abound, you will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ”
2 Peter 1:5-8
From the Apostle Paul
“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect (mature) man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head-Christ.”
Ephes. 4:11-15
From the writer of Hebrews
“For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil”
Heb. 5:12-14
HOW HAVE YOU BEEN MAKING PROGRESS WITH YOUR GROWTH IN FAITH?
We were meant to make good progress in our faith. We were meant to have “perfect” (mature) understanding of our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us examine our life and see where we faltered and failed. Let us be deeply challenged to make amends. Let us pray and work hard at developing our faith till one day we can say like Luke, “It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things…”
Let us humbly come to the Lord and confess to our Father that we have fallen short of His design for our lives. Let us cry out to Him for forgiveness. Let us rise from our knees with a new and determined spirit to make better progress from here on, till we come to a “perfect” (fully mature) understanding of our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.