A Look at the Book #481

A Look at the Book #481

by Jesse Abel

Daily Devotional – A Look at the Book #481

A Thought for today by Papa “J”

The soul of man is never satisfied with the temporal things generated by our natural life; but it is satiated (fully satisfied) when the LORD’s eternal goodness is present. Jeremiah 31:14 and Matthew 11:29-30.

A DAY IN THE PAST, THE PRESENT OR THE FUTURE

One thing that struck me last evening at church was a comment made by the pastor that prayer just does not happen and that in order to pray we need to set a time to pray. The gospels reveal that Jesus needed to have a specific time to pray to his Father each day and that His time for prayer was early morning, while it was still dark. Simply speaking; if He needed to do this, then why should we think that we are exempt from making a specific time to pray? This really hits home because I have been thinking of what I needed to do to have more prayer with the Father. Time; set time to pray; and for those special events in our life it would be appropriate to pray all night. When is the last time you did that? Luke 6:12-16.

1 Peter

1 Peter 3:7 – Overlooking the word intentionally or in simple neglect does not excuse us from the responsibility of performance. For example; we men often give attention to detail when tuning the engine of our hotrod to sound and perform like the roar and strength of the tiger. Then we take that know how and place it as criteria to find tune our wives to perform without flaw too! STOP IT!

Have you noticed the word I am referring to here? If not… here it is: LIKEWISE. As men we need to say; likewise what LORD? 1 Peter 3:1-6 – Here in these passages are the attributes of love and submission that carry a marriage into eternity with the LORD, these are also attributes that are hard to learn for both the wife and the husband. For most men we have an eye problem and our focus is on the outward beauty and performance (the shell) and not on the inner beauty of our wives, that when fully developed makes us ONE!

Now here in verse 7 we see too that the following words; you, them and being are not in the Greek text and if you are reading from the New King James Version, the verse now reads: “Likewise husbands, dwell with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.” So let me conclude with this. We husbands are not set apart from the wife to run roughshod over her performance. We are LIKEWISE – ONE with the weaker vessel in the LORD. If we fail at this God ordained task, how could we ever expect our prayers to reach the Throne of God?