A Daily Devotional – Meditation and Contemplation (1)
Comment: What do we think about daily? When I was
working I remember an elderly lady who would come to the lobby of the senior
housing where she lived around 9am. She would sit there patiently until the
mail person showed up around noon. For several weeks I sought to encourage
her to do other things during that three-hour span of simply waiting for the
mail. Her mind was set; she would not budge; her reason; "she did not want to miss getting
her daily mail."
Devotional: As
the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my foul for You O GOD. My soul
thirsts for the LIVING GOD. When shall I come and appear (literally – see the
face of God) before GOD? My tears have been my food day and night, while they
continually say to me. “Where is your GOD?” When I remember (contemplate) these
things, I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of GOD, with
a voice of joy and praise. With a multitude that kept a
pilgrim feast – Psalm 42:1-4.
What? What again?
What are we doing in our congregations (multitude) throughout this nation of ours. Do any
of us worship GOD with our SOUL anymore? I am broken-hearted over this thought, people
are not going to the house of the LORD to hear from the Spirit of the LORD, they are going to be
entertained with music and singing that does little to glorify God, or reveal His Spirit. In some
churches the music celebration lasts for hours and the pastor who preaches or
(maybe) teaches gets about fifteen minutes.
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why
are you disquieted (made uneasy) within me? Hope in GOD, for I shall yet praise
Him for the help of His countenance (favor) – Psalm 42:5.
Churches; not all,
but many spend their time contemplating and meditating on foolishness; as a result,
the souls of those who are led astray by this are cast down (grieved) and our
nation suffers the consequences of idolatry and immorality. National sin does
not start with the wicked, it is already at work in them. It is the
responsibility of the church of God today to subdue evil. Yet, we do not have
enough Spiritual clout to blow out the candle of darkness ‘within’!
Ecclesiastes 19:18
Because of laziness the building decays,
And through idleness of hands the house leaks.
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