Saturday 19 Jul 2014

July 19: Proverbs 3:5-10

Key Verse: Proverbs 3:8
It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones.

Devotion:
How do you treat God? That may sound like a strange question but it is very valid in our modern world. We do tend to expect things to work and many would simply throw stuff away when it stops working. Gone seem to be the days when people stopped to fix things and had a go at fixing them even if they did not know how to at first. It is described as living in a throwaway society but it goes a lot further than that because we do expect the junk we surround ourselves with to work as expected.

So do we start to treat God like that as well? Do we look at what God can do for us and then discard Him when He does not live up to our expectations? For many people that is exactly how God is treated and should never be! We should be lifting Him up in reverence and glory, not treating Him like a piece of technology that we expect to work! What if God does not bring the healing when we expect it? What is God does not answer our prayers in the way we want? What if we are asking amiss?

It is not for us to try to understand the ways of God because His understanding of the universe is a lot more than our understanding of anything! We cannot hope to understand how we work if we cannot even get the physics right in the static things around us! Why do we expect God to do things our own way when we should know His ways are so much better?

That must never stop us from asking God though because He will be able to answer us better that we understand. He wants us to be blessed because He loves us and wants what is best for us. If we are going to want God to treat us the way we think we should be treated then we should be treating Him that way He knows He should be treated! That means coming humbly before Him and lifting Him up to His rightful place. We need to treat Him as God and not a piece of technology that we want to work in our own ways…

Points to Ponder:
Do you ask too much of others?

Do you want God to treat you nicely?