Wednesday 16 Jul 2014

July 16: Psalm 66:16-20

Key Verse: Psalm 66:19
But certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

Devotion:
We are all witnesses for God. What we do will be seen by others. What we say will be heard by others. What we think will be heard by God!

That should be enough for us to stop and think about what goes through our minds. Whilst we may not be able to stop ourselves from thinking about some things we should be able to fill our minds with more Godly stuff so there is less room and time to get involved with all the rubbish that we take with us. When we focus on the rubbish it tends to build up until it spills over into our lives. When we allow that to happen the people around us start to ask questions about what sort of lifestyle we lead. No it is not right to judge others but that is a part of life – we do judge others!

We need to make sure that we allow others to see that we love our God and that we are trying to live for Him and with Him. Yes we are still going to get things wrong and we should apologise for those things when the time comes, but we don’t have to live by them and we don’t have to focus on them. God is not going to take every little thing that we have said wrong and bring it all back to us… Oh wait… He is if we don’t ask Him to forgive us… You see, God is God. That means that He will never miss anything. But when we ask Him to forgive us He will forgive us because Jesus Christ paid for those wrong things with His LIFE!

I thank God that He is willing was willing to allow Jesus Christ to die in my place on that cross. I thank Him that He is willing to listen to me when I lift up my wrong-doings to Him and ask for His forgiveness. I thank Him because I trust Him and I believe in Him. I want you all to know that because when we all get together and compare notes about how much He has done for us, we will lose count of all the blessings He gave us whilst we were still living with sin! It is a very special life we have with Christ and one that should not be taken for granted. Live your life to the full with Christ and not to the full with the earth!

Points to Ponder:
Do you live life to the full?

Is Christ in that life?