“The Divine Necessity”

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

Necessity is defined as something necessary or indispensable; need; essential; urgency; requirement.

Jesus allows no exemptions. We must of divine necessity pray and not lose heart. It is God’s way. It is the only way. In the Upper Room, Peter tells the church “it was necessary” that Judas should do what he did, as God’s word had foretold. He tells the crowds, “There is no other name than Jesus by which it is necessary that we be saved.” When God tells Ananias to baptize Saul, God says, “I will show him how much it is necessary that he suffer for my sake.” After Paul survives being stoned with rocks, he tells his friends, “It is necessary for us to enter the kingdom of God through many sufferings.” John also talks about divine necessity. John says that at one point, “it was necessary” for Jesus to pass through Samaria. There were plenty of other ways he could have gone (most Jews took the bypass around it), but Jesus had to go through Samaria. Jesus had to talk to the woman at the well. It was a divine necessity. Jesus tells Nicodemus that “it is necessary” for one to be born again and for him to be lifted up on a cross.  John the Baptist says “it is necessary” for Jesus to increase, but I must decrease. John says, that “it was necessary” that Jesus rise from the dead.

I come by this morning to let you know it was necessary. Life is full of cases of divine necessity, cases where it had to happen that way, places where God’s absolute will takes over, places where we can say that God had it planned all along. Be bless and I love you!!! JE