A Daily Devotional - Faith – Personal Meditation
Comment: We were
at a Bible Conference over Labor Day so we are a little behind schedule, yet I know
as well as you we are never late with the Word of the Living God. His timing is
perfect, His ways are past finding out, yet He is always a very present help in
times of need. God does all things well is a SERIOUS subject. If you have ever
done anything in this life, you know when finished; where all the flaws are and
if asked could point each of them out. In humility you might say, see; here and
here! But in pride you may be found standing in front of the most obvious flaw
and say, there are none. In Genesis 1 we can see God’s comments about His six literal
days of creating the earth and all that the earth contains, even universe that canopies
the earth, it was all good, and at the end of the sixth day, He spoke His final
Word on what He created and said it was VERY GOOD. Creation was perfect; see
Psalm 104.
Devotional: What then is man, that you LORD are so mindful
of us? David in Psalm 8 considers thoughts like this as He meditates of the
Glory of God in Creation. I believe we do not glorify God with all of the nonsense
we see in our churches these days. I also believe that we are about to witness
and ‘eye popping’ event in our nation that may help us return to the LORD of
Glory. I do not have to search out what this event may be since it is not the
issue, the issue is that we who claim “Christianity” are not at all “Christ
like” in our daily walk of faith.
Out of our mouth we use words
in our gatherings that praise and glorify God, but in our heart, we fail to
meditate that the LORD is excellent in the earth. His Glory is revealed above,
in the heavens. The heavens declare the Glory of God and the firmament shows
forth His Handiwork, Psalm 19. Some will want to say, “but we sing about these
revelations of God every Sunday, so what is the issue. The issue is: What do we
do after the church worship is over?
Do we follow up on this worshipful
event with meditation on the Glory of God? Do we feast moment by moment
throughout the days ahead with thoughts like these? “When I consider the
heavens and the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have
ordained! Who am I, that you are so mindful of me? Why LORD; have you visited
(established) me? For you have made me and fashioned me a little lower than the
angels, yet you have crowned me with glory and honor”.
No! we do not follow up with
meditation such as this; instead we mentally and physically pursue the sins of
our everyday lifestyles which we do not what to GIVE up. We may be washed by
the Blood of the Lamb, we may be saved by the grace of God, we may even be
ministers/leaders of the whole counsel of God. Yet, we are far too willing to
lay aside the LORD’s Righteousness for the desires of the flesh (1 Corinthians
6:9-10). Then like the harlot of Proverbs, she wipes her mouth on Sunday and
says; “I have done no wrong!” Proverbs 30:20.
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