Daily Bible Reading - Tuesday April 7th

I guess back in the days of Moses God told them when He was ready to take them home, or at least He did Moses. Of course I’m sure Moses was ready to go home, after all he was 120, that’s quite a number of years to live and have served God.  It’s amazing how God knew when Moses would die that the people would forsake God and turn their ways wicked and sure enough that’s exactly what happened.  Boy did they go wicked alright, makes you think they were worshiping Moses instead of God almost.  When I read down almost to the end of the old testament reading where God describes how Israel was it kind of made me chuckle when it said “But Israel soon became fat and unruly;
      the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed!" Sounds like they were getting sassy?  Were we that way, were we unruly like that when we were “heavy, plump and stuffed?"  LOL Some of us get sassy now a days but it’s a good sassy lol.

Wow reading Psalms really hit me.  How many times in our lives when things get to going really good we forget where we came from and how it all happened and how God helped us and saw us through all the tough times.  Sometimes people forget about God in the good times then when things start to happen and not go our way we remember where and how God brought us out.  Amazing how as humans tend to push the spirit aside when were not in need.  This year has been such a year of growth so far for a lot of us, I pray and believe that will not happen to us, that we will ALWAYS keep our eyes focused on where we came from, who brought us out and where we are going, God will never turn His face away from us if we only keep Him with us all the time.

The devotional just seems to keep on going right along with that we read. To always have delight in Him and keeping Him close in ALL times.  That’s my prayer today to keep immersing ourselves in the water of Gods word so that we are always moldable for God. What a word this morning!

Today’s Reading

Deuteronomy 31:1-32:27
Luke 12:8-34
Psalm 78:32-55
Proverbs 12:21-23

Daily Devotional

Psalm 37:4
“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart"

Do you know what it means to delight yourself in the Lord? One of the definitions of this word in the original Hebrew means: to be soft or pliable. In other words, when we allow God to shape and mold our character, we are delighting ourselves in Him.
   
The scripture tells us that God is the potter and we are His clay. The potter can’t work with hard, dry clay; He has to use soft, moldable clay. We are the ones who decide if we will allow God to work with us or not. We decide if we are going to be soft and pliable or if we are going to allow the world to make us hard and dry. How do we stay soft and moldable? By simply immersing ourselves in the water of God’s Word. Friend, when you and I make God’s Word a priority in our lives, we are setting ourselves up to be used by God. We are delighting in Him. We are yielding to Him, and we are opening the door for Him to give us the desires and secret petitions of our hearts!.

Today's thought: God, today I come to You giving You all that I am. I am committed to Your Word and I invite You to work in my life. Make me more like You and may everything I do be pleasing to You.