Daily Devotional – ‘In His Footstep’
By Kingdom Support Initiatives (KSi)
October 3rd 2023

Experiencing Jesus (I)

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched-this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 1 John 1:1(NIV).

Bible Reading: 1 John 1:1-4

When a court of law wants to make judgement concerning a case, they don’t request testimonies of people who have not had a firsthand experience of the event leading to the case in question. Rather, they go first for people who witnessed the event. The efficacy of a witness testimony is dependent on the person’s experience of the event. An experience is characterized by hearing, seeing and touching (handling). It is not dependent on someone else’s testimony but your own personal involvement in or/and experience of a thing or an event.

John the beloved who had been very close to Jesus spoke of his own personal experience of Jesus (the Word of life). John shares his experience with us so that we can desire personal experience of Jesus ourselves. It is possible that you’ve only been hearing other people’s testimony of Jesus; how he saved and changed their lives, how he delivered them from destruction, and how he has been their great provider and so on but you have not experienced him personally as your Lord and Saviour. Even though Thomas one of Jesus’ disciples acted in doubt (which was wrong), his cry to see and touch the resurrected Christ is worth emulating. This actually made him a better witness because he later heard, saw and touched the resurrected Christ. Dear friends, I desire fresh encounters and experiences of Jesus daily. Why not cry for experiential knowledge of the Word of life today?

Self-Reflection: Position yourself to experience God in a deeper realm

Action point: I’d forever be chasing after you, Lord Jesus.

Daily Confession: Lord I pray that you reveal yourself to me just as you revealed yourself to the people of old.

Intercessory prayer: Pray for God’s mercy for your nation.

Hymn: Saviour, more than life to me,

I am clinging, clinging close to Thee;

Let Thy precious blood applied,

Keep me ever, ever near Thy side.