Tuesday 10 Apr 2012

Tuesday Reading: Zephaniah 1:12-14

Key Verse: Zephaniah 1:12
12  And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

Devotion:
What sobering words were written by so many prophets, and yet Israel would not listen to God’s Word. Pride had set in and continued to steer men away from doing what was right in the sight of God and led them down some pretty evil paths. We can look through the chronicles of the kings and find out just how many of the kings went their own way instead of following God’s way, but we must also remember just how many people continued to follow those kings down the path of destruction. Each one of us has been given a choice as to what we do in our lives and the path that we will be following – so let us choose wisely!

God is Just! That means that when He sees something wrong in our lives He is not going to turn a blind eye toward it and allow us to continue down our path of destruction. He is going to try to get us to turn around and follow Him and His ways before we fall of the edge. When we find out the lengths that He has already gone to to turn us round, then maybe we should take notice when He first puts something in our path to turn us! Why should we continue to allow terrible things to come our way when we know that by following His ways and His path we will be able to live a much better life for Him.

This does not mean that we are going to turn into millionaires or find untold treasures that will make us rich; far from it because monetary wealth will turn us away from God’s ways and make us follow the ways of the evil one instead. God wants us to leave the worldly ways behind and to follow on in His ways because He does know which ways would best suit us and which ways would best profit us!

Our ways are the easy paths that we chose to allow for the least discomfort and the path that we think best suits what we would like to do. God’s ways are just the right ways. When we are able to set aside our preconceptions and allow God to show us His ways then we are able to build ourselves up in His might and in His wisdom. When we do do that we then begin to see just how amazing He is and how much of our own interest He actually does have in His heart. If we allow ourselves to follow His ways and mould our lives to His ways then we will find out that His ways do actually suit us if we want to live for Him!

Points to Ponder:
Do you try to mould God’s ways?

Or do you mould yourself on God’s ways?