Friday 16 Aug 2013

Friday Reading: Psalm 4:4-5

Key Verse: Psalm 4:5
5  Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

Devotion:
What do you do at the end of the day? Do you sit in front of the TV and watch something, anything really, until you feel tired? Or do you sit down and think about what has happened that day? Sometimes it is at the end of the day when you need to sit back and find what was on your heart that day, what or whom touched your heart and what you should be doing about that. If you have been touched by someone then you should meditate on what has been going through your heart because that may well be where you should be focusing your love.

God has given us our hearts and minds which are so very special to each one of us. We are allowed to feel things for others like no other species on the planet in that we can share this amazing love that Christ has shown us with others. It is at the end of the day when you will be able to focus on what has happened and examine the principles that God has shown you so that you know what He would wish you to do now.

There was a time when I would sit in front of the TV and allow it to blank my mind instead of seeking God. What I did not realise was that I was opening my mind up to whatever was on the TV and certainly not what God wanted me to meditate upon. So the last thing I try to do each day now is to spend time with God and allow His Word to guide me toward another day. By reading His Word I am able to make sense of my day – not always at that very moment but always able to bring order back into what could have been a chaotic day.

Sometimes it is the act of breaking away from the world and stepping back into God’s arms that will bring back that normality, joy and peace that we know He shares with us. It is the fact that we are offering the sacrifice of giving up on the worldly surroundings and saying something like “OK Lord, I want to do what you would like me to do right now and not what the world wants of me.” It is not the works we can do nor the physical sacrifices we can offer but those spiritual ones we find hard to lay down that God will accept more readily; because He knows they will come from the heart!

Points to Ponder:
What do you do for God?

How many others do exactly that?