April 2 ~ Dr. Tom Milam He Leadeth Me Devotional

“He Didn’t Make A Fight Of It”

Isaiah 53:7; Matthew 27:14

Jesus made no defense for Himself, though He had at His disposal legions of angels. He could have snapped His finger or spoke a word and all of Heaven would have lifted its head with swords drawn and come to Calvary’s hill in less than a heartbeat to utterly destroy all those that mocked the very God of Heaven hanging there. But it was not to be so, He saw you and I and said, “for this cause, came I into the world”. He came to be slaughtered as a lamb meekly before the offering block. But it also was self-sacrificial. He uttered not a word. His silence spoke of who He was. Others had said not long before this, “never a man spake like this man.” And those gathered at Calvary had to say, “never was a man silent as this man.” He made no complaints. He struggled not, and He made no complaints. He struggled not and wouldn’t dare go against His Fathers plan and interfere on His own behalf. Jesus stood speechless in-patient silence and was saying to the world, “I love you and it is best to do the will of the Father, no mistake is being made here today.” 

A calm and meek endurance says more than a mouthful of lofty eloquent words in most situations. By His silence, Jesus showed the wisdom of knowing and fulfilling what was prophesied about Him, especially in the book of Isaiah. He proved beyond a shadow of doubt that He was the true Lamb of God, by His silence, and His willingness to suffer alone for the sins of the world. 

"The Blessed True Story"

 May I today salute the King,

The Saviour come from glory.

The Lamb of God that in silence bowed,

And gave us this blessed true story;  

Oh, speak to us O voice of love,

Make the silence not be a worry;

But tell us again as we stand in awe,

How you gave us this blessed true story.

~ Tom Milam

Daily Jewel:

“A calm and meek endurance says more than a mouthful of lofty eloquent words....”

Bible Reading Schedule: 1 Samuel 4-7

Weekly Memory Verses: Hebrews 4:9-13

Hebrews 4:9-13 ~ 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 ¶Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.  KJV