Thursday Reading: Jeremiah 29 8-13
Key Verse: Jeremiah 29 13
13 And you shall seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.
Devotion:
It is hard trying to figure out what God has got in store for you if you are not going to listen to the right source. It is even more difficult to ignore the things that others will try to convince you of if they say they are talking for God. But there is one thing that will always stand, the one thing that we can always depend on and the one thing that God has wanted us to depend on right from the beginning. And that is the Word of God!
You may think that you have a difficult task ahead to try and find out what the Word of God is and what is fantasy being talked up by people who just want to be popular or make themselves rich from your misfortune or by wreaking havoc with your feelings! But the task is actually very easy when you think about it. We do have the Word of God. That very Word has stood the test of time and continues on the same as it was from the beginning. We do not have to wait for 70 years of being enslaved in Babylon because that has all been in the past for us to have proof of God’s Word.
We now have a book that we can go back to at any stage and compare what other people are saying that God is saying. If what they are saying does not agree with the bible then what they are saying is coming out of their own imaginations and certainly not from God. God is not going to change His Word suddenly now just to make you happy or fix something that is wrong. God has said from the beginning that His Word will never change and that we can always depend on what He has said. So Just Do It! Depend on the truth like it is the truth because it is not going to change. Depend on God’s Word because it is the truth. Don’t run off believing what others are going to say to you when you know that God’s Word does not say that – believe in the truth instead; and believe it with your whole heart just like The Lord wants you to!
Points to Ponder:
Do you like believing other’s good words?
How does their word compare to God’s Word?