The Devotional - A Look at the Book #741

by Jesse Abel

Psalm 19:4 – Have you ever thought of our galaxy as a tent or a home, when I read this verse I am reminded that God who loves His Creation has measured our place of existence in time. The sun and all of the planets obey Him. If these did not… you simply would not exist!

Good Morning

This is not bragging but I have done a lot of traveling and last evening in our church service I was challenged to think about my experiences as a young believer. In Spain I met a man who operated a mission for the U.S. Military, the Christian Serviceman's Center in Rota, Spain. In Sandbank, Scotland I met a guitar playing pastor. In Ukraine I met a Russian Navy sailor who was and is now pastoring a church there.

To visit these places and to meet these people was somewhat like a homecoming, once met these folks and their families it became as if I had known them all of my life. Why is that? We knew Jesus who in turn knows His sheep. John 10:25-30 now the best part of this is that because they are family, I will see them again because Jesus has given us eternal life.

There is a second part to the challenge of last evening, one that has been on my heart a long time and I have even mentioned it a time or two in these devotionals. God is not pleased with His church on American soil these days. We simply go through motions of honoring God, we toss money at programs, policies and promises in the name of God and expect God to spend it and solve our national economy, our national abusive behavior and national sin. God is not looking for our money… HE DOES NOT NEED IT!

Please notice what it is that God needs: “If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is Mine. And all its fullness.” This comment is from God, it is in the middle of His exhortation to us saying that what He needs or desires, His people are not providing. Psalm 50:1-23.

Read the Psalm when you have time and note that God does not need our feeble resources, He owns it all. “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there is none to deliver. Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; and to him who orders his conduct aright, I will show the salvation of God”. God is looking for His church to return to Him in our day of trouble, then He will deliver us and we shall glorify Him. Is there no remnant, is there no balm in Gilead. Jeremiah 8:22 The United States of America is in trouble; our only hope is to return to God who will change the destructive course we are on.