Wednesday Reading: Jeremiah 2 1-5
Key Verse: Jeremiah 2 5
5 So says Jehovah, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?
Devotion:
There are so many things in life that need us to persevere; if we start to think that we can get fit and then give up half way through, we will not continue to be fit. We need to stick at things when we start them. Just like a normal relationship, our relationship with Christ has to be maintained from both sides; if we give up on our side of the relationship then it is going to go cold. We need our constant companionship with Christ to continue our relationship with Him right up until the moment when we meet Him face to face.
It is very sad to see someone go cold in their relationship with God. It is even worse when you see them going down-hill and facing all manner of problems which they start to blame on God rather than thinking about what they have been doing. As we walk with Christ we grow with Him and we see just how much He does for us. When we start to walk off on our own, do we really expect Christ to have to follow us on our sinful path or should we be the ones turning back to Him? Those first steps seem to be taken when we have a bountiful blessing in our lives – at that stage we start to look at our blessing and count them for our own. The next step is to celebrate by ourselves, leaving God out of it. From then on we are walking by ourselves again, turning our backs on the very Christ that gave us those blessings in the beginning!
How vain we are to think that we are the ones that can maintain our own spiritual lives. How vain we are to think that it was all down to what we did and not what Christ has done for us. Then when we are down we blame God! What has He ever done against us? He who cannot bear sin, He who cannot temp... How can we ever think that it is He who turns His back on us when we have already turned our backs on Him? We need to celebrate our relationship with Christ by continuing to keep Him involved in our relationship with Him!
Points to Ponder:
How often do you forget simple promises you have made in the past?
How can we ever think that God can ever break a promise when He never has so far?
Key Verse: Jeremiah 2 5
5 So says Jehovah, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?
Devotion:
There are so many things in life that need us to persevere; if we start to think that we can get fit and then give up half way through, we will not continue to be fit. We need to stick at things when we start them. Just like a normal relationship, our relationship with Christ has to be maintained from both sides; if we give up on our side of the relationship then it is going to go cold. We need our constant companionship with Christ to continue our relationship with Him right up until the moment when we meet Him face to face.
It is very sad to see someone go cold in their relationship with God. It is even worse when you see them going down-hill and facing all manner of problems which they start to blame on God rather than thinking about what they have been doing. As we walk with Christ we grow with Him and we see just how much He does for us. When we start to walk off on our own, do we really expect Christ to have to follow us on our sinful path or should we be the ones turning back to Him? Those first steps seem to be taken when we have a bountiful blessing in our lives – at that stage we start to look at our blessing and count them for our own. The next step is to celebrate by ourselves, leaving God out of it. From then on we are walking by ourselves again, turning our backs on the very Christ that gave us those blessings in the beginning!
How vain we are to think that we are the ones that can maintain our own spiritual lives. How vain we are to think that it was all down to what we did and not what Christ has done for us. Then when we are down we blame God! What has He ever done against us? He who cannot bear sin, He who cannot temp... How can we ever think that it is He who turns His back on us when we have already turned our backs on Him? We need to celebrate our relationship with Christ by continuing to keep Him involved in our relationship with Him!
Points to Ponder:
How often do you forget simple promises you have made in the past?
How can we ever think that God can ever break a promise when He never has so far?