Delight in Him
Today's Devotional Reading: Exodus 21, 22; Psalm 12; Acts 4
January 28, 2011
By reading the scripture above each day you will read the Old Testament through in one year and the New Testament through twice in a year. This will change your life. Start Today!
|
TODAY'S SCRIPTURE
"They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus." (Acts 4:13 NLT).
TODAY'S WORD
, this morning as I read about Peter and John before the council I was thinking how these men delighted in God and people knew it. In Psalm 37:4 it says "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. , 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. The cool thing is that people around us will notice that we've been with Jesus. A PRAYER FOR YOU TODAY
Father in heaven, 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. In Jesus' Name. Amen. |
| We sure love you!
Eric & Rita
|
No comments:
Post a Comment