Tuesday Reading: Psalm 119:89-96
Key Verse: Psalm 119:92
92 Unless Your Law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction.
Devotion:
God’s Word has always been. That’s a statement that we cannot fully grasp because to us it is quite alien in concept because we are limited by time, we grow in time and we die in time. Yes it is true that God’s Word has not always been written down in books or even on tables of stone for that matter – each of those things can be giving a time period in which they became true. But the more that we study God’s Word the more that we should realise that it does not change…
Just because we change over time and because we have our moments in life, we expect everyone else to change and have their moments too. Whilst that is going to be true for humans, we should never attribute such things to God because he does not change. We are the ones that change the rules and re-define things so that we can fit in. God’s Word and His ways have not changed from the beginning of time; that in itself should demonstrate to us that He does not change, has not had to change and will not have to change!
God created this earth so that we could have a place to live within. That means that He also created time so that we would have something to live by as well. Throughout time God has continued to show His love towards us by upholding all that is true and honest. He has given us limits and boundaries to live within and we are the ones who have broken those limits and surpassed those boundaries. That does not mean that those limits and boundaries are up for discussion and for change – it just means that we do things outside of those limits and boundaries.
Does that stop our God from loving us? Certainly not! How can we forget God’s Laws when we have them written down? How can we ignore them when they have remained constant over all time? How can we? Well, by ignoring them in the beginning. Over time we ignore the ones we find hard to keep, we bend the ones we don’t like the sound of and we even write new ones in the hope that people will accept them as the truth – but that does not mean that God will ever accept the lies as the truth. Let us them bring to mind God’s Word, not just when we think we need it, but always and let us never try to change it just to suit our own ways!
Points to Ponder:
What do you like changing around you?
What have you tried to change in God’s Word?