Thursday Reading: 1 Timothy 1:12-17
Key Verse: 1 Timothy 1:15
15 Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Devotion:
I thank God daily that He alone is the one that strengthens me from the inside. I thank Him that He is the one that is able to lift me up from any doldrums that I may jump into and that He is the one who saw it fit to allow His Son to pay for my sins. You know, we don’t have to look too far back in our lives to realise that what we do sin so much in our lives and we do have a real big debt that we should be paying for. I’m not talking about the so called ‘big’ sins that some have committed such as murder but those equally bad (in God’s eyes) sins that we commit in our minds, in our thoughts and even in our hearts.
There is nothing that is hid from God because He knows exactly what we are doing. There is nothing that we can hide from our creator because He does know everything. So the fact that He does know everything about us and what we are up to should make us very weary of the fact that He knows every one of our sins – and yet we continue in our sins even after getting to know Him. That is just one of our weaknesses. We give in to some sins because we think that they are not so bad or we try to justify them in some way so that we can sin – but sinning is exactly what we are doing...
But we have a totally awesome God who has given us a way that we can bring our sins to Him and ask Him to forgive us. In that same manner He has promised us to forgive us of those sins if we are sincere, honest and humble. For that fact we should and must lift Him up above everything in our lives and proclaim Him our eternal King and God. The fact that He sees everything we do should not worry us. The fact that He forgives us when we ask should not make us complacent. The fact that He has seen fit to do this all before we even knew Him must make us stand in awe of our wonderful, merciful God who we can approach through Jesus Christ His Son!
Points to Ponder:
What are you up to?
Do you stand in awe of God?
