Sunday 24 Jun 2012

Sunday Reading: Psalm 103:1-5

Key Verse: Psalm 103:1
1  Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

Devotion:
What worth would you place on your own soul? What worth could you place on it? I know we have seen films, jokes and all manner of things said about selling your soul or exchanging it for favours, but really, seriously, how could anyone ever place any price on the soul of a person? Governments and leaders will inhumanly calculate the price on a head due to circumstances surrounding them so that they may minimise loss of life or discomfort, but that should never detract from the fact that God has given us, our souls, eternal life. Now what we do with it is still our choice but that choice is something that we should only make when we are in possession of all of the facts and not just say-so or hearsay from others.

God has given us life and we need to treasure that life with everything that we have otherwise we will end up regretting it for a very long time to come. God has given us the ability to find out the truth and to get to know Him in a very special way by understanding just how much He loves us. All too often we forget about all that God has given to us and all that He does do for us every second of every day that we spend here on earth; so let us take a look at some of the things that we have that should give us every reason to praise our Awesome God!

We can look at the state that we, humans, are in and wonder how we have ever been able to survive so far. It may take rocket scientists to work out how to go to the moon and back, but it does not take much to realise that there is a Creator in charge and that He is the one that holds so many things together – things that would otherwise fly apart from the way we treat them. He is the one who continues to keep so many things at bay; even though we do have to face many hardships and trials we can continue to know that He does look out for us because we see that we have been kept from total destruction as He continue to teach us about all that He is.

We may complain about the state of countries, their economy, the plight of their people, the lack of standards of living and so many other things but most of that can be directly attributed back to a lack of control, direction or care from people in charge or even neighbours. God has told us time and time again that we need to look out for each other and yet we continue to blame Him when things go wrong. He is actually the one who does keep it all together – without Him we would have disappeared a very long time ago!

Points to Ponder:
What do you do to live fully?

What do you do to live for God?