Daily Devotions
May 8th, 2012 by Pastor SolleyRev 1:10-20
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. 12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. 19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; 20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
Here we see Jesus Christ in the midst of the church, the seven candlesticks. What might Jesus have seen if He had walked into your church Sunday morning, Sunday evening or this coming Wednesday? Would He have found an empty pew where you should have been sitting in reverent worship of Him? Would He have found people alive unto Christ or asleep in the pew? Would God honoring hymns of the faith have filled His ears or would it have been the music of the world? Would the message from the preacher been one given from the true Word of God, the King James Bible, or would it have been from the words of men who think themselves wise enough to change the Word of God? Would Jesus have been greeted by people glad to see Him or ignored and left alone? Would the Pastor speak a message given by the Spirit of God or something he printed off from a website? Would Jesus have watched as you went to the altar and met with Him or just watched you go through the motions of worship without any real change in your life? What would Jesus see in your church this week?