On What Do You Depend?

‎Thursday, ‎April ‎15, ‎2021

Good Morning, Lord

Verse of the Day: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

Memory of the month:  And they said to one another, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?" —Luke 24:32

Today's reading: 1 SAMUEL 27-29 LUKE 13:1-22

On What Do You Depend?

When we depend on our government and military, we get what the government and military can accomplish and this is never perfect.

When we depend on what we can do, we get what we can do and we often fail.

When we put our trust in people, we get what people can do and are often disappointed.

If we depend on a church's worship service to grow us spiritually, we may be looking in the wrong place.

(A.C. Dickenson said) "If we depend on prayer, we can get what God can do."

What can God do?

The better question is, "What does God do?"

God holds us in His hand and promises that nothing can pull us away from Him.

John 10:28 ►I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

God lets us hear Him:

John 10:27-29 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

God gifts us with faith to believe:

Romans 8:38-39 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In Christ Jesus, God gives us eternal life:

John 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

He gives us His perfect peace.

John 14:27 ►Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

God gives us His perfect joy.

John 15:11 ►I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

He writes his laws inside us:

Hebrews 10:16 ►"This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."

God does the impossible:

Matthew 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Hebrews 3:13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

The reality of all this and so much more depends on our attention-our focus-our obedience. God will not empower the man He does not control. We are controlled only by our treasure. Today-every waking moment-pray that God is your treasure.

Matthew 6:21 ►for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

...because He loves us...

Father in Heaven,

Forgive me my weak focus and I pray God that my heart is consumed by You. I submit and die to self.

Merciful God and Father of complete love and peace,

In the name of Jesus,

Amen