Thursday Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:18-23
Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 3:23
23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Devotion:
Flattery may well get you places in society because we all like to be lifted up to a certain extent; but flattery is just that, all talk and no action. If we start to try and flatter ourselves then we have an issue because we are then talking ourselves up in a position greater than what we are or should be. No matter how much a businessman may say that you have to talk yourself up it is not going to change the person that you are. What you have to do is to be honest with yourself. Now, most of are not honest because we think we cannot do anything; we actually talk ourselves down instead. What we do keep forgetting is that God is on our side and because of that we can be successful if we continue to work with Him.
We are not the wise ones! God is! If we try to go ahead and do everything according to our own ideals and ideas then we will very quickly find that we fall short because we don’t know everything! If we are willing to listen to God and follow His ways then we will find that He does know everything and His guidance alone is enough for us... if only we would listen! If we walk with God and then go off to try do things by ourselves we may well find that He allows us to fall so that we realise just how stupid we are without Him. It’s not because He wants us to fail, it’s because He wants us to know that He is God and we are His.
We like to label ourselves by all manner of things. I’m not talking about being male or female or even from a certain country; no, I’m talking about the social and political labels we bestow on ourselves to make ourselves look good or fit into a place... We do that to build ourselves up... What we forget to do is to build God up in our lives. We really do need to remember that He is God and that we are His. We are nothing without Him but we are everything with Him.
Points to Ponder:
How do you label yourself?
Is your life Christ centred?
