Sunday 28 Dec 2014

December 28: Proverbs 3:1-6

Key Verse: Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;

Devotion:
What sort of things do we need to take with us every day? Well, a good start is clothes and then something to eat and drink or the means to obtain something to eat and drink… But what is going to feed us each and every day with the essentials. The doctors and health people amongst us will now be telling us about all the nutrients, special acids and all manner of things that our bodies need. In fact if we listened to all the people who knew about these things, did the exercise and stayed on track we would be quite fit and healthy; but would we be enjoying life any better?

Well, because we would be healthy and able to do more we would probably want to do more and we would enjoy that. But life is not all about the enjoyment and striving to get the most out of it; life is also about being there for others, worshipping God and so many more spiritual aspects than just the physical and emotional. Life is a very special gift given to us by God and He would like us to enjoy living it the way He designed it for us…

When we start to trust in what God has done and what He can do, we have doors and ideas opened up to us far beyond what we normally see. Embracing these new aspects in life allows us to live a closer life with Christ and hence more in line with the life He had for us to start with. We like to wander off on the roads of ‘fun’ and ‘games’ but we also get distracted by the roads of ‘lust’, ‘pride’ and ‘greed’, each of which take us further away from God and His design.

Remember God’s mercy, His law and His truth because we can apply those to our lives every day and be filled with the spiritual food we seek via all manner of strange ways. Trusting in God’s ways allows us to walk with Him and live with Him in our hearts. When our eyes and ears are more focused on Him we can pick out the parts where He clearly is not and help ourselves and others to avoid those situations. God is good, but we need to trust Him to realise how good!

Points to Ponder:
Are you being side-tracked?

Have you let go of God’s law?