❤️ Do You Really Know Jesus? | Matthew 22 Devotional (7-Step QT)
7-Step QT Notes
1. 🙏 Quiet Time
Pause.
Take a deep breath.
Ask God to show you who Jesus truly is and to teach you how to love Him and others more deeply today.
2. 📅 March 14, 2026
Today’s passage reminds us:
Faith is not just knowing about God—it is loving Him fully and recognizing Jesus as Lord.
3. ✝️ Matthew 22:34–46
Jesus declares that the greatest commandments are to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself, for all the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments. He then asks the Pharisees about the Christ, showing that the Messiah is not merely David’s son but also David’s Lord. Unable to answer him, no one dared to question Jesus any further.
4. 📖 Key Verse
“What do you think about the Christ?” (v. 42b)
5. 📝 Reflection
What do you think Christianity is? How would you define it? Is it merely one of the world’s three major religions? Is it a cruel religion that launched the Crusades and killed countless opponents? Is it a stubborn religion that opposes homosexuality and anti-discrimination laws? Is it a hypocritical religion that, under the pretext of missions, massacred indigenous peoples and took their lands?
In today’s QT passage, Jesus asks the Pharisees—those who were considered the most knowledgeable and observant of the Law among the Jews—this question:
“What do you think about the Christ?”
The Pharisees answer only from the perspective of lineage, saying that the Christ is the son of David. Yet they cannot explain that the Christ is not only David’s descendant, but also David’s Lord. Today’s passage reveals that although the Pharisees prided themselves on knowing the Scriptures better than anyone else, they did not truly know God.
Beloved church family, the Bible is the Word of God, written to reveal who God is. If we read and study the Scriptures yet still fail to know God, that is a far more serious problem than we may realize.
The reason we practice QT each day is not merely to read the Bible. We do QT in order to know God rightly through His Word, to experience His power, and to enjoy His love. Through today’s Word, I sincerely pray that you will come to know God more deeply, love Him more fully, and live each day in the joy of His love.
6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?
- Have I been content with knowing about Jesus rather than truly knowing Him?
- What part of my heart, mind, or daily life needs to love God more fully?
- How can my love for Jesus show up in the way I treat people this week?
- Is Jesus simply part of my life, or is He truly Lord over my life?
7. 🙏 Prayer
Lord, help me not to stop at knowing about You.
Teach me to love You with all my heart, soul, and mind, and to love others with Your love.
Open my eyes to see Jesus more clearly and follow Him as Lord today.
Amen.
Scriptures
📖 34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 42 saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” 43 He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying, 44 “ ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet” ’?
45 If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” 46 And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions (Matthew 22:34-46, ESV).
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