Sunday 30 Mar 2014

Sunday Reading: Matthew 5:1-12

Key Verse: Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Devotion:
I challenge you to see if you can get out of a blessing from God in these verses. I really don’t think that anyone who has trusted Christ at any stage in their lives could ever get out of receiving a blessing from God. No matter what stage we are in our walk with God, no matter where we are in the scale of feeling down and depressed, no matter how high or low we are in our spiritual walk, each one of us is blessed by God ever day.

God does not say that He is only going to bless those who are pure in heart; what He does say is that those who are will also be blessed. You see, these beatitudes are for everyone who is willing to listen to them. Just as Christ stoop on the high point and broadcast to everyone who was listening, He continues to stand up and talk to those who are willing to listen. I am awestruck that so many people want to hear God’s Word those things like the Internet and even mobile device apps. I count it as a truly great blessing that God has allowed me to reach thousands of people every day just by putting pen to paper (not literally, otherwise it would get lost in the post!)

On this last Sunday of the month, count your blessings as see what God has done (great hymn). He continues to bless us in every walk of life so don’t put Him aside just because you think you are doing something else!

Because this is Mothering Sunday here in the UK, I want to make a special plea today for you to count your blessing that have come from your mothers today. Not just your real flesh and blood mother, but those special ladies who may have taken you in and treated you like someone special. Give them a call today, be it phone, text, email, card, walk round and speak, or a very special prayer lifted up to them.

Points to Ponder:
Lord, on this special day, I lift up my memories of my mother, mother-in-law and other special ladies, and I thank you.

I lift up all those very special ladies in my life and especially my ‘new’ mom, and I thank you!