Sunday Reading: Romans 8:28-31
Key Verse: Romans 8:31
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Devotion:
One thing you will very quickly find is that when you are working for God and not against His will, the work that you do will take on a whole new meaning. The more that you do for Him, the more that you want to be able to do. Conversely when we start to get lax with our work for God we quickly fall into a spiral whereby we do less and less until we find that we have drifted far from God’s side. All works that we do in His name, for Him and for His glory will bring us joy and fulfilment.
God has given each one of us abilities that we should be using to glorify Him. Far too often we either use those abilities to try and bring glory to ourselves or for our own good. It is not us that He has given those gifts for but for His glory. Don’t get me wrong here because using those gifts will bring us joy and fulfilment, never more so that when we are able to glorify God in what we do. So if God has done this for us, why then are we not using our abilities? Sadly many do not care to find out what they can do for God and more still try to find out what God can do for them instead.
When Jesus came to earth as a human being it was not just so that He would be able to die but that He would be able to show us what can be achieved through faith and trust in our Awesome God! Yes we will get things wrong, we will even upset others, but that must never stop us from trying to do our best for God so that we may glorify Him! We worship God Almighty. We worship the creator of everything. If we work to glorify Him and He has already chosen us to do that, then who can actually ever hope to come up against us?
Points to Ponder:
What things do you think you are good at?
Are you doing that for yourself or for Christ?
