The Devotional - A Look at the Book #809

by Jesse Abel

A Word from Papa “J”

 

Remember those old cartoons? Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, stories of Uncle Remus and Walt Disney; mostly these stories were representative of what to do and what not to do in life. Ways in humans of good and evil. It is funny that animals do not live by the charge of Genesis 3:1-24 and the one that did… God knocked his legs off!

 

Good Morning

I hope your day off today is a Godly one, (well maybe you have to work; if so this too should be Godly) since what “good” is a good day if God is not in it? In most all of these devotionals I have sought to place everything that happens to me and those around me in a setting that involves or displays our Creator at work in everything we do.

For example; I bought a new car in February some years ago and took it to work for the first time on a snowy and slippery day. As I exited off of Route 95 I noticed two vehicles in the guard rails and the two drivers were outside of the cars looking over their misfortunes. As they seen me coming down toward them, they were waving their arms, seeking to slow me down.

I was already on my brakes but the care was out of control. I cried out’ “LORD, I just bought this car, look it only has thirty miles on it! Well, LORD let your Will be done.” Just after that quick prayer of turning it over to the LORD. The wheels in the front which were turned hard left gripped the pavement and threw the car up on the soft snow bank on my left away from the cars, the men and the guard rails.

As the vehicle slide through the snow bank, I straightened the wheels and the car rolled back onto the roadway. I waved to the two men and continued on to work as if nothing else mattered. I think of that event because I know that our LORD is involved all that we do and that whatever we ask in accordance with His will… He hears and responses. Now I have told of this event before but it has recently come to mind again, simply because the salesman “Charlie” sold me the car and he has recently gone home to the LORD.

We are not as keen on the death of His saints as we need to be and it is a shame since we are surrounded by life and death daily. While we sorrow and mourn, which is needed; the LORD God sees this as a most precious moment. All souls; even the aborted are tattered and stained by the effects of living in this fallen world return to God who Created them. One that is clothed in the Righteousness of Christ (The Blood of the Lamb).

Are you redeemed by the Blood of Lamb, or does your soul still long for that moment? Come on now; I know you know whether you are redeemed or not and you and God are the only two who know for sure. These thoughts thrill my soul and allow me to know that I serve the Living God. Psalm 116:1-19.