Tuesday Reading: Jeremiah 17:9
Key Verse: Jeremiah 17:9
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
Devotion:
When doubts start to creep in then we start to go astray – but isn’t that just human? Well yes it is, but it does not mean that we have to go that way because we still do have a choice. It does not matter whether we have been brought up in a Christian home or whether we have been brought up in a secular home; we still have the choice to make and it is our choice. Ok, the odds are stacked against you if you are brought up in a secular home but when you finally do get to hear the truth you will be faced with the same choices as if you were brought up in a Christian home.
Our problems, from the beginning of time, has always been that we have a wicked heart. Our very core beings are corrupt because of the corruption Satan spoiled us with and because of that we tend to follow the track of least resistance when we meet up against rules. You would think that the path of least resistance would be to follow the rules but as soon as we are faced with all the odds we quickly find that the path of least resistance is actually to work against God – Satan has made sure that that is true!
Wide and straight is the highway to hell, but narrow and winding is the path that leads to Heaven. God wants us to be on that narrow winding path; we know this because He has given us our torch to find the way, instructions to find that path, rules to stay on it and a whole bunch of encouragement to boot. So if that is the case, why then do we insist on choosing the wide and straight path? Because it seems so easy! Satan is not going to allow us to freely find out the destination of this straight highway he has laid before us – otherwise we would know the truth. Instead he plants uphill struggles all along the narrow winding path so that we might give up and go back to his highway to hell. Very cunning, but absolutely deceitful! Never doubt the narrow winding path, but always question the straight and easy path...
Points to Ponder:
Do you question your direction each day?
Are you following God’s directions?