Tuesday 21 Sep 2010

Tuesday Reading: John 9:1-3
 
Key Verse: John 9:3
3  Jesus answered, Neither has this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.

Devotion:
As much as we would like to drive our own lives we must admit that it is God who is in charge and He that has designed each of our lives. We are not the ones that choose to be blind or to be lame but God has allowed that to be so for a reason. What the reasons are we may well never know to the full extent until we are with Christ in heaven. We can ask ourselves why there are so many floods, earthquakes and other terrors that are all around the world and think that God has forsaken us... but we are wrong. God has never forsaken us. We have invited sin into our lives and into this world. We then have to pay the consequences of inviting that sin in. But God continues to be there for us if we are willing to call upon His name.

God had allowed this man to be blind from birth because He knew that Christ would one day walk past this very point. What better way that to display God’s love and commitment to us than through a miracle. Does this then mean that it is God who has given us the earthquakes and floods and sad times in our lives? Heaven forbid. It is God that has given us a wonderful world to be in but us who have corrupted it from the start. There were no horrible things in the Garden of Eden to start with but we had to sin and so be cast out into a rough and tough world where things like this do happen.

God has a design for each of us in our lives. He wants each of us to live by that design. We are the ones with the choice whereby we can choose whether we do obey His Word and His ways or whether we get caught up in the worldly ways. If we choose the worldly ways then what else can we expect that worldly rewards and vanity and an end that is certain and not nice. If we choose to be on God’s side then we can look forward to an end that is also certain but is a whole lot better than what the earth can give us!

Points to Ponder:
What are you aiming for?

Do you blame God or look to God?