March 19: Psalms 16:5-8

Key Verse: Psalms 16:6
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

Devotion:
I love God and I love it more when I am in a happy place and feeling like I am surrounded by love and care… but that does not always happen. We do have to face up to things which we may not like and face up to life in general – stuff happens! But through this all there are going to be those times when we feel absolutely great because everything seems to come together at that moment! Don’t stop praising God in these times; it is easy to forget about Him when you are so focused on the good things surrounding you…

The more good things happen the more we can look forward to how wonderful Heaven is going to be. The more we will be able to dream up the amazing things God has in store for us. But, even in the bad and sad times, we can look forward and know that things are going to get better. We can fall back on the many instances in our bibles which show us just how great God is and how much He cares for us. Take hold of those instances and know that God has done this before and will do it again!

When we live with God and continue to listen to His instructions, our hearts are filled with the knowledge He cares for us and we realise how much He does! It is through the good times we can lose focus and through the really rough times when it is hard to focus; but that should be our aim – to focus on Him daily. When we do we gain strength through our faith as we see so many things He is doing in our lives.

Let’s equate this to a race happening on the other side of the world – unless we link up to that race through the media or other means, we will lose focus on the race, the racers, its outcome and how it affected people. We don’t just delay the results… We need to constantly keep focus on God and in everything He is doing in our lives!

Points to Ponder:
Do you like ‘people watching’ where you sit and watch people go by?

How much do you watch God and listen to Him?