Tuesday 13 Aug 2013

Tuesday Reading: Genesis 6:1-7

Key Verse: Genesis 6:5
5  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Devotion:
One thing I will always find hard to imagine is the state of the world before the flood. In the very beginning it must have been such a perfect place with everything that we could desire being abundant and at hand in the Garden of Eden. And then we started to sin because of the temptations that the evil one threw our way. Since then the world has never been the same again!

We can marvel at what we have around us now and see how many species we can discover and learn about; but we must also look back and see how many more species used to exist in our perfect world before we broke it all. We should look back and see how much we have already destroyed with the sin and lies that we have brought to this world. We should look at how much we have done to break everything that God has prepared for us. Maybe then we will see how much God actually loves us!

The flood itself destroyed so much that we find it hard to come to terms with a world that was so very different and so suited to us beforehand. We find it hard to accept that there was such a diversity of plant and animal life and that we are destroying so much through our wicked ways. Why should we to be to blame? Well, we are the one who continue to sin and work against God. He is the one who created a fantastic place for us and we continue to break it and destroy it. We could apply that to so many things in our lives that we are given and break…

We need to be diligent with what God has given us and make sure that we do try to do our best for Him. He has given us the opportunity to do what is right, we have to be the ones to get up and do it now! God continues to watch over us and continues to be distraught with the sin that we bring into His world. Lord, help us to see what we are doing wrong so that we can set things right before we break too much once again. Help us to live for you and not to continually break all that you give us in our lives!

Points to Ponder:
Do you think you are a good steward?

Are you doing your best for God or just what you want?