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Daily Devotional – Personal Meditation
Comment: As a
child growing up, our eyes are excited and our minds are not so innocently open
to life as it reveals itself to us. A dead fly in the ointment had already
putrefied the sweet aroma of living, (Ecclesiastes 10:1). It only takes a
little folly with one who has the potential for wisdom and honor to ‘crash and
burn’. What I mean; has already been said! Note Ecclesiastes 10:2 – A wise man’s
heart is in his ‘right hand’, but the fool carries his heart in his ‘left hand’.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, the rod of correction will
drive it far from him, Proverbs 22:15. So we see right off that the potential
to do good is hindered by the presence of evil. Even the rod of correction, if
it is not used properly will destroy, rather than heal. What I am seeking to
say is that life becomes oblique, that is; slanted, evasive or indirect. Thus, for
many, this paradox of do’s and don’ts, destroy personal friendships, wreck
personal faith and even strain personal relationships with parents.
Devotional: Psalm 119:160 – The entirety of Your Word is
Truth, and every one of Your Righteous Judgments endures forever. Many people
turn to God because of the sour odor of living life apart from God. We are
empty hearted; in other words, our ability to love from the soul is missing, so
our understanding of love the way God intended is flawed and we learn to love
from the flesh. This love never becomes personal – it is emotional and it is physical, and rarely personal!
Now it does not take a
science of any kind to figure this out, any person with a libido understands
that the desire of living life to the fullest is stronger than they are. As the
LORD leads, I will be looking in various parts of the Living Word of God to
challenge all of us that life (physical or spiritual) is to be personally
involved. First with God our Creator and secondly with our neighbor, friend or
family. God has much to say or reveal to all of us about His Will for us to get
along with Him and those around us.
The following is a well-used
Psalm, it speaks of what we all need in early life, but it also speaks to those
later years too. Not to labor and prosper for the LORD, or for SELF,
but to labor and prosper with the LORD. Hang on to this
thought; if I am working for the LORD or for SELF, I am seeking an impersonal
reward. But if I am working with the LORD, I am seeking a personal and
rewarding relationship, one that He provides, Psalm 127.
A Song of
Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who
build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It
is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows;
For so He gives His beloved sleep. Behold, children are a heritage from the
Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
so are the children of one's youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of
them; They shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the
gate.
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