July 10, 2015

DJ

Psalm 4:4 Be angry, and do not sin. Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

One of my favourite places to write devotions and to read my Bible is on my bed where there is little to distract me from my purpose.

Taking anger or other pent up feeling to bed with you will not give you a restful night’s sleep; but giving all of your problems and unloading your anger before bed will help.

Spend time alone with God and talk things over with Him; do not keep them to yourself or think that God will do things all the time.

Yes God is here always, but He does wait for you to offer things to Him and to ask of Him.

July 9, 2015

DJ

Matthew 23:9 Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

Do you look at a verse like this and say that we should not call anyone Father because God says so, or do you look at this and say Jesus told off the Scribes and Pharisees for lifting themselves up?

I think that if you don’t think about both then you may have missed the point of Christ saying what He did!

God’s word is here for us to learn from, so we need to learn from what has happened to others and see how that applies to our own lives nowadays.

Don’t look at the Bible as being a set of things that happened for the people at the time it was written about – look at it as instructions for the past, present and future.

July 8, 2015

DJ

John 5:44 How can you believe, who receive honour from one another, and do not seek the honour that comes from the only God?

In order for us to enjoy the love, joy and peace that comes from God we do have to listen to and obey Him in the first place!

If we are going to continually seek the praise from people around us instead of looking to God all the time then the only praise we will receive is from the people around us.

That praise and honour will be hollow because it comes from mortal man; seek the everlasting and honourable praise from our God and King.

Make sure we listen to all He has to tell us from the words given to Moses through to those delivered to John for our futures!

July 7, 2015

DJ

Proverbs 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey; So to seek one’s own glory is not glory.

What happens when you eat too much of something? I’m not talking about eating too much lunch or Christmas dinner but eating nothing but honey for a few days or something similar.

Whilst we may kid ourselves we could eat our favourite food for a week, we would get sick of eating a single thing in the end; but rich foods would not take that long!

Seeking our own glory is about as good as eating nothing but honey… the more we eat it the less we think of it until we are sick of it and despise it.

Don’t get caught up in judging yourself but take in all God gives you for it is good!