Tuesday Reading: Psalm 96:1-6
Key Verse: Psalm 96:5
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols; but Jehovah made the heavens.
Devotion:
The one thing that I get asked about is why there is a difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament – but when you read things like this from the Old Testament we then being to see just how much they go together, just how much the Old Testament bears witness to the New Testament and how much the New Testament refers back to the Old Testament. God has given us His Word as a whole and not as separate parts.
I can remember getting a bible that had the New Testament and the Psalms in it and wondered why they had only given these parts – then I got into seeing just how much was written down in the Old Testament and began to realise why this had been done. Whether we get part of His Word or the whole of it it is not something that we should be ignoring. The more that I am able to read His Word (albeit slowly) the more I am able to understand all that God is, all that He has done and all that He has promised.
God has given us His Word so that we can know about Him, about what He has done, about the past and about the future... This is signified through verses like this foretelling of the day when we would all sing a new song to Jesus after seeing what He has done for us. We need to read our New Testaments to see all that Jesus the Son of God did for us. We need to read our Old Testaments to see all that God the Father did and promised. We need to read them together to see just how God’s promises were fulfilled through Jesus and then we need to stand on the promises that are still to come. Thank God for His marvellous Word!
Points to Ponder:
What part of the bible do you like the most?
How do you use God’s Word?
Key Verse: Psalm 96:5
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols; but Jehovah made the heavens.
Devotion:
The one thing that I get asked about is why there is a difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament – but when you read things like this from the Old Testament we then being to see just how much they go together, just how much the Old Testament bears witness to the New Testament and how much the New Testament refers back to the Old Testament. God has given us His Word as a whole and not as separate parts.
I can remember getting a bible that had the New Testament and the Psalms in it and wondered why they had only given these parts – then I got into seeing just how much was written down in the Old Testament and began to realise why this had been done. Whether we get part of His Word or the whole of it it is not something that we should be ignoring. The more that I am able to read His Word (albeit slowly) the more I am able to understand all that God is, all that He has done and all that He has promised.
God has given us His Word so that we can know about Him, about what He has done, about the past and about the future... This is signified through verses like this foretelling of the day when we would all sing a new song to Jesus after seeing what He has done for us. We need to read our New Testaments to see all that Jesus the Son of God did for us. We need to read our Old Testaments to see all that God the Father did and promised. We need to read them together to see just how God’s promises were fulfilled through Jesus and then we need to stand on the promises that are still to come. Thank God for His marvellous Word!
Points to Ponder:
What part of the bible do you like the most?
How do you use God’s Word?