Devotion for April 13, 2010

Here is the Devotion for today.

The Bible verses are Colossians 3:23, John 15:5, and Psalm 105:4

Colossians

And Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

John

I am the vine, ye are the branches; He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Psalm

Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.


Okay this to me means that we need to seek God out no matter if our life is going great or if we feel that we can no longer take anything else. We can do all things with God, but won't be able to do anything without him. For without him, we are just shells of the person he wants us to be.

We tend to seek the Lord out when things are great in our lives, and when our life takes a turn for the worst we tend to try and figure out how to get out of the situation on our own. He knows how he wants our lives to turn out, and how he wants us to be able to do things. We need to let him show us the way, and allow him into our hearts and our lives on a daily basis!

Devotions for April 12,2010

Sorry I didn't get to this yesterday but here it is today.

The Versus that were suggested for Monday April 12,2010 are:

Exodus 15:22-25

22 So Moses brought Isreal from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

25 And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them.


Psalm 31:14

But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

Those were the verses that I read.

When our life is going the way we want to, we praise the Lord and know that he is with us and we trust him implicitly. When things start going wrong, the majority of us (myself included) tend to blame him for what is going wrong We don't trust that he gave us the obstacle because he knows we can overcome it and be stronger.

We need to learn to not only trust our God when things are going right, but to remember to trust and lean on our God when things go wrong. He is always with us. If we only praise him when our life is "perfect" and not when they aren't, we are not truly trust Our Father.

If we try and praise him when our life is full of obstacles, we will be able to fully trust God in all that he does for us and to our lives.