Saturday 3 May 2014

May 3: Psalm 2:1-6

Key Verse: Psalm 2:5
Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure:

Devotion:
Why does the world not want God to be real? It’s a simple question and one that all manner of people have been fighting against for a long time. What is comes down to is quite simple really, man does not want God to be real otherwise man has to listen to God! Satan planted those seeds of doubt and pride in the beginning and man has been fighting those weeds ever since.

The more we get given, the more we want, the more we want the more we take and that bring in deceit, lies and corruption. The only way we can hope to get away with any of those is to build upon them with more junk, more deceit, more lies and more corruption. We are building this huge pile of self-pride and self-glorification that has no real foundation. The only foundation it has is a lie in the beginning. Once that lie surfaces, and it will one day, the whole world we have built up on that lie will come crashing down around us.

Lay aside the ways of the world and pick up the ways of God because God is the foundation upon which the real world is built. Christ came into this world to be the cornerstone of the church that will not crumble because it is a base upon which everything can be built. This is real world information because Jesus Christ was born, did live, was crucified and did rise from the dead; it’s just that man does not want to have to accept this otherwise he has to accept everything that God has given us and that mean rejecting this great big world that he has built up for himself.

God’s world is real and firm as the foundation it is built on. Our world is only as firm as the foundation we have built it on. We have seen many buildings collapse and disappear because of things like earthquakes, but God’s church has stood from the beginning of time. It may have been reduced to eight people at one time, but it has remained there, always and will forever be. Submit to the truth. Submit to God!

Points to Ponder:
What is your world built on?

Is Christ your foundation?