Monday Reading: 2 Thessalonians 3:3-5
Key Verse: 2 Thessalonians 3:5
5 And may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
Devotion:
No matter how close you get to nature and no matter how much you can say that you are one with nature, you will not get any closer to God unless you follow His will in your life. God commands us to have Him as first and foremost in our lives and He does that for a very good reason. As soon as we start to look at other things in our life then our lives start to move in that direction and away from God. The only way to be God centred in our lives is to have Him at the centre of our lives; which means putting aside all manner of things that we take for granted and things that we look for.
It may not seem like the evil one is doing anything in your life because you may be leading a life that is about as far as you could imagine from being evil. But the fact is that he is going to use just about anything and everything to detract you from God and from doing God’s will in your life. All those ‘good’ and enjoyable things may be the very things that weaken your resolve with God because they may be the things that take you mind off of God.
We need to examine our lives closely and make sure that what we let in is not centred around enjoyment and self fulfilment but more around God. We need to make sure that we do follow His Word constantly so that we can have Him direct our hearts towards God and towards His love. Too many times in our lives we look upon enjoyment rather than upon God’s love and His ways. If we genuinely follow God’s ways and focus on Him them He will bring enjoyment into our lives, but that enjoyment that He brings will not detract us in any way from Him and from His Word. If anything it will focus us more on Him. Those will be the things that we can focus on and keep forever because those are the things that He has given us rather than the things we seek instead of Him.
Points to Ponder:
What do you seek?
Is your search God centred?
