A Daily Devotional – Meditate on God’s Absolutes

A Daily Devotional – Meditate on God’s Absolutes

Comment: One thing that is very noticeable in our land these days is that we have lost our way to the absolute ‘perfect laws’, the ‘sure testimonies’, the ‘right statutes’, the ‘pure commandments’, and the ‘enduring fear of the LORD’. These judgments of God are TRUE; altogether these are RIGHTEOUS and TRUSTWORTHY! Many too have laid aside the TRUTH that GOD, the only GOD is the Creator of the heavens and the earth.

Devotional: All of Psalm 19:1-14 is a declaration of the absolute character and existence of God. Creation and God’s judgments Glorify God every second of TIME. The traditional, social and religious promises of our nation are admirable, but these are at the very best ‘temporal’, ‘relative’, ‘untested’ and finally, ‘untrustworthy’. Why might that be?

Do you watch the news? “For out of the HEART proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnesses, blasphemies. These are the things that defile a man.” Matthew 15:19-20a, the context is a conversation of the LORD Jesus with the scribes and Pharisees regarding ‘cleanliness’. The focus of righteousness ascribed by these men was on the outward behavior of man, all of which is temporal. 

If you read the context of Matthew 15:1-20 you will clearly see that Jesus points out that the traditions of these religious people have transgressed (over stepped the boundaries) of God’s commandments. Can it be that in our day we in churches all across this land are like the synagogues of Jesus’s day? We emotionally draw near to God with our mouth, but our hearts are far from Him. Vainly we worship God, we have become students of the doctrines and commandments of men.

There is much to learn from the Word of the Living God… “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of TRUTH.” Why? Simply because there are no absolutes in many churches across this land. 2 Timothy 2:14-26.

A Daily Devotional – Meditate on the Light

A Daily Devotional – Meditate on the Light

Comment: The world in which we live is driven by DARKNESS. This darkness is not physical, it is SPIRITUAL. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the DARKNESS of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12; please consider reading the context Ephesians 6:10-20.

Devotional: One SERIOUS sin that many children of God commit is the SIN of COMPLACENCY. A certain smugness of “I am okay, the world around me is all wrong” This is not “Spirituality” it is however “self-satisfaction” this attitude is just as full of the darkness as that of the unbelieving world. In other words; this smug attitude is one of the wrestling matches that the devil wins by crippling the children of God in the age of which we now live and this is the dispensation of the EKKLESIA, the CHURCH.

The word ‘ekklesia’ literally means ‘called out’ so the question that might arise in our thinking is; called out of what? “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of DARKNESS into His marvelous LIGHT.” 1 Peter2:9. We believed God, this pleased God and through His Son did the rest, this same FAITH is from the very beginning of time; Hebrews 11:6 so just as FAITH was active from the dawn of History, Hebrews 11:4-7, it is active in the church today, faith is made real by humble obedience to the LIGHT.

A Daily Devotional – Meditate on the Word

A Daily Devotional – Meditate on the Word

Comment: As you know I have cut back on the time spent in providing a devotional look at the Living Word of God. I enjoy to meditate and search in and over the scriptures, in every case the times spent is ‘most precious’. Sometimes I spend too much time and the day does not stop and wait for me. Therefore, it is my hope and intention to provide a shorter devotional, something to challenge all of us (when time permits) for deeper personal study. All of us are capable to do what I do each morning and that is this. “Pray for God the Holy Spirit to guide you to meditate on His Word” He never fails. So look forward to a daily, but shorter challenge, thank you.

Devotional: In John 4 the disciples posed this challenge to Jesus while the Samaritan woman left her water pot and went back into the city to tell the people of the ONE who said to her, “I who speak to you, am He”. The challenge “Rabbi, eat!” The reply of Jesus, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” The context of this discourse between Jesus and his disciples begins in verse 1 of chapter four and continues to verse 43 when Jesus departed Samaria.

Read and meditate on the context and let God the Holy Spirit fill you with a morning Spiritual breakfast that satisfies your SOUL. It is far better to take the 20 to 30 minutes of meditation and prayer over SCRIPTURE than reading the words of something I have prepared for my personal daily devotion. 

FAITH, your faith in God is PERSONAL; God personally desires a PERSONAL; ONE on one meditation with you. There are many passages in God’s Word where He challenges us to talk with HIM, one such passage is found in Jeremiah 33, in verse 3. Jeremiah is called by God to speak to Him, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty THINGS, which you do not know.” Call on the LORD in meditation, read His WORD and your soul will be filled with joy as God reveals to you spiritual things which you do not know!