Tuesday 24 Jan 2023

January 24: Psalm 40:6-10

Key Verse: Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire – but my ears you have opened; – burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.

Devotion:
These are the words the disciple spoke of when he was writing to the Hebrew people about what Jesus had said. This was a reminder they had had the truth written down for all these years – the truth given to them by God through the prophets. Yet we choose to ignore words like these when it does not seem to fit in our current situations...

God has given us His word and made sure these words were written down, we saved, were foretold and retold to try and bring it home they are the truth. Yet mankind continues to choose his own words and his own interpretations of the words he reads. God wants us to know the truth and to believe the truth as He has given it to us. I’m not going to get into an argument about which version of the bible is more accurate or which one we should us because mankind is still studying God’s Word!

Until mankind believes the words and writes them down as law, we are all still going to argue about what is right and wrong. It is a choice we have to make and one which will change our lives when we make the choice. Once you make the choice you will strive to learn more and understand more in whatever language or style or writing you choose to do so – you should try to find the truth plain and simple.

God does not want us to get hung up in arguing with each other because that has all been done and mankind argued so much they made up their own rules about what people should do for God. This is one of the reasons why Jesus came – to get rid of all the rules mankind has created and to try and go back to the simple truth from God!

Points to Ponder:
How often do you think about what you read in the bible?

Are you willing to allow God to explain it to you?