CONTENTMENT
Today’s Reading: 1 Samuel 7-8
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Ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheatre in Bet Guvrin at the Maresha National Park in Israel.
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Key Verse: 1 Samuel 8:5
…and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
PRAYER FOR TODAY:
Lord God, may I be given grace every day to be content. You are my King, my absolute Monarch. I want to obey You in all things. I receive my instructions from You. I pray that I will steadfastly resist the pressures to conform to the world around me. In Jesus’ Name I pray, Amen!
100 PERSONAL WORDS:
For my personal devotions I’ve just read Romans 8:26-30 and also Romans 11:25-36/ Romans 12:1-2. The answer to the human problem of being faithful to God is here. It takes a positive and a negative charge to release electrical power. So it is with the release of the power of God in my life. Positive – “Be conformed to the image of His Son.” Negative – “Do not be conformed to this world.” Again I think of the electrical analogy. We have a built-in transformer. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Not long ago, as I drove along Burnt Hills Road just north of Kingston, an electrical storm was raging. Lightening hit a transformer and it exploded in front of me. Of course, everyone’s lights went out in the area. There is a storm raging all around, a storm that can knock out my connection to God’s power. I count on God’s power crew, the Word and the Spirit, to be on hand constantly to keep me in complete union with Him.
Yours for a constant flow, without interruption, of God’s power,
David
P.S. In 2012 I was given a life expiry date of two years (Mayo Clinic and Juravinski Clinic). My “best before” month was March, 2014. I often told my family, “I’m indestructible until God is finished with me in this life.” Thanks for your prayers!
The view from walking in the tunnels of the amphitheatre ruins in Bet Guvrin at the Maresha National Park in Israel.
“[I]f we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself” (2 Timothy 2:13).
In today’s reading there is a very sad verse. I Samuel 8:7 “……for they are rejecting me, not you. They don’t want me to be their king any longer.” NLT
How broken God’s heart must have been to be rejected by the people He loved and rescued time and time again. His love endures forever. As Rob mentioned above, when we are faithless, He remains faithful.
Our Father, draw us closer to Yourself each day and help us to be truly devoted to you. You alone deserve our adoration !
We do learn from history but we do not know how to get back to the right way.We have fallen and need help to get up on our feet and to point them in the right way.(The Way).We do learn from history but we don’t learn how to correct our mistakes…collectively.We need to go back.
Back To The Garden
I want to go back to the garden,
Back to before sin knew it’s name;
Before hearts of stone would harden,
For then,Lord,our hearts were the same.
Father take me back,if only in dreams,
To Your world where love was to blossom,
Where birds sang beside mountain streams,
And the beauty that grew was so awesome.
Show me this secret garden of Yours,
Where I can be free from my sin,
Where the angels keep open doors
And time was not free to begin.
Show me the way to the garden path,
For too long my garden sprouts sin,
So let Your fire burn free your wrath
To make a new heart from within.
G W(Bill) Marshall / 21 Feb, 2014
Amen Rob & Luisa. Where would we be without the Lord? Glory to His Name. Amen
Amen to the above posts.☘️☘️ Happy St Patrick’s Day to all. My husband andI are both from Ireland.
Top of the morning to you💚
Thank you for all your postings.
Great is God’s Faithfulness.( Lam 3:23)
Happy.St. Patrick’s Day. Love all the comments. Blessings on all saints, preachers and teachers spreading God’s word.