Monday 29 Sep 2014

September 29: Psalm 104:5-9

Key Verse: Psalm 104:7
At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.

Devotion:
To me this is one of those Psalms which is a personal account of what the writer thinks of God along with a personal relationship they have with God. If you want to try to understand a bit more of the love of Christ, then I think we should all take a leaf out of the writers book and compare what others say about Him with what you know about Him.

We can read so much about what God has done for us, what Christ has done for us and what the Holy Spirit has done; but until we bring that into the present instead of the past we will not understand just how important our relationship with God is. Looking back on things we can see what has happened and surmise what could happen. But when we look at the here and now we see a picture which is living and so much more meaningful. We see a God that is active in the world today and not just a God that did things for Israel.

God is not dead! God is alive and living and continues to pour out His love, grace and mercy upon us no matter where we are. His love does cover everything just as the waters of the flood covered everything. His power is way above what we can imagine just as the power of a flood disturbs us beyond what we expect. God is real and wants us to know just how much He does and can do for us. He does not want us to be left alone and does not want us to fear death and destruction when He has so much more planned for us that we realise.

God continues to open our eyes and hearts through all that He does each and every minute of every day. We can rejoice in all He is willing to do and all He does do for us. But we need to open our eyes and hearts to this good news before we can see how special it all is. Don’t just invite Christ into your life, invite His ways of life into your life and live with Him.

Points to Ponder:
Do you have to look back in history to see how special friends are?

Why look back in history to see how special God is?