Thursday 4 Feb 2010

Thursday Reading: Deuteronomy 13:1-4
 
Key Verse: Deuteronomy 13:3
3  you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For Jehovah your God is testing you to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Devotion:
No matter how much you think of someone, if they are telling you lies they are certainly not being your friend! But how are you going to know if they are telling you lies? So many people seem to be genuine and they will give you all manner of things that they say they can do for you or that they have done for others just so that they can have their way with you. People seem to go out of their way to please others just so that they can lead them away from their current friends or beliefs and lead them astray. Why would they even think that they are doing the right thing by doing that?

The obvious answer is that they do not know themselves what they are doing. So many people have already been deceived by the evil one that they now do not know that they are walking away from God and walking to sure destruction. Satan is not someone to make deals with nor someone to trust in any way because he is simply out to deceive people for his own benefit. When people get caught up in bad things they do not see that what they are doing is bad because they have already been deceived. Instead they try to get more people to join in with them without knowing that it is just another human trap they are falling into.

The only way that we are going to find out what is for God and what is against God is by comparing what we hear, see and therefore say and do against God’s Word. If God’s Word pulls it apart or shows it up for deceitful ways then we need to draw ourselves away from those things and come back to God. He is not going to punish us just because we did not know any better – far better to face Him in humility than having to face His wrath because we refused to hold fast to His Word!

Points to Ponder:
Do you know what you do is right?

DO you know what God wants in your life yet?