Monday Reading: Luke 20:20-26
Key Verse: Luke 20:25
25 And He said to them, Therefore render to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.
Devotion:
There are going to be times when we seem to be faced with conflicts in our lives because of the laws of the land and the laws of God and in those times we have to seek wisdom from God in order to help sort things out in a manner whereby we keep God’s laws but also are not seen to break the law of the land (unless they are truly opposing God’s law). The more we read our bibles, the more we will be able to make good judgment calls through knowing what Christ would do or has done; but there will always be cases where we don’t remember or cannot figure how God’s Word relates to our predicament.
Prayer is a powerful tool that we should never forget and should never give up on. Yesterday we were reminded how we should never cease to pray and today we look at our different worlds we live in. We live in a world that is controlled by various people making decisions and we have all agreed to try and live by those decisions in order for there to be some sort of order in our lives. God has allowed each of those people to be in the positions that they have – this does not mean that they follow God nor does it mean that they do God’s will. When man gets into a position of power, greed takes hold and he takes many more handfuls than he rightly should carry... and that is what we face every day in our lives.
When it comes to us trying to balance our lives we have to always remember that there are two separate areas, God’s and mans. We should never get these two confused otherwise we may well find ourselves walking after man rather than walking after God. It is very easy to allow greed in various its forms to take hold in our lives and lose focus on God. By continuing to ask for guidance and wisdom through prayer and reading our bibles we are allowing ourselves to continue separating man from God; that way we will never confuse our greed with God’s awesome power.
Points to Ponder:
Are you mixing your life up?
Can you still see God’s separate ways?
