24 October: Luke 13:1-9
Key Verse: Luke 13:8
He replied, “Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig round it and put manure on it.
Devotion:
When I go back and read some of the passages in my bible, I often try to put myself in the shoes of the writer, the people who were being written to and what Jesus would have been thinking about at the time.
Here Jesus was talking with the disciples about some of the atrocities which happened to other people, just because they were different! This is something we face all the time because some people just don't get it that we are all different!
And then there is the fact that stuff happens in this world which is out of our control because someone else just can't get it and they rebel or discriminate or just hate on others because of their differences.
Sometime we have to be the ones who are willing to step forward and throw a bit of manure onto the site so that goodness can start to spread from the inside out. If there is no goodness or mercy, then things will just continue to spiral out of control!
Points to ponder:
Are you willing to step up and offer to do a bit of dirty work?
Someone starts the work and others are encouraged to continue it...