Daily devotion – a time to question
February 2022, where are you in your walk with God? Are you closer today than you were yesterday? Have you grown more dependent upon Him in all that you do and think? Does the Holy Spirit have sovereignty over your life and do you sense His leading?
These are all very serious questions we should examine our hearts with continually as we seek to please God and have Him be Lord of our life.
I have a number of personal mentors in my life from the Bible. I read their stories, their life accounts, their struggles and battles. But also their victories, their obedience and love for God and I use each of them to be an example as to how I should live my life today in 2022.
People like Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Daniel and Paul to just name a few. There are a number of others also, that people usually don’t look to as much but I do, however they are for another time.
Joseph, he truly is one of my main mentors along with his trials and tribulations, especially from his own family, I admire him so much and look forward to meeting him in glory.
It is his life where I see this amazing continual growth in his relationship, faith and trust in the Lord. He, after he experienced so many things that most would say appeared ‘unfair’, became such a godly man of grace and forgiveness. His revealing himself finally to his brothers after a myriad of difficult events is a lesson for each of us in this 2022, the year of our Lord, and our personal walk with God.
Gen 50:20 “But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.
As I grow older in both physical years and years of walking with God, it breaks my heart even more now when I see believers not treating their relationship with their Lord as the most important matter in their life. After realising Jesus Christ suffered and died on the Cross at Calvary for our sins, our lives should never be the same ever again! Each day we should grow closer, more loving and even more humble in the presence of our God. How? By being in His Word daily, by praying, by fellowshipping with His Church faithfully, by serving and by witnessing.
My prayer for you today after you ask yourself honestly the questions I first raised – is that you ARE growing each day closer to He who loves you and died for you.
The Christians life is pretty simple and very straightforward. It’s like Joseph showed us. He each day grew closer to His God, his faith more and more, and his love and servants heart stronger every new dawn. Come what may!
May you grow in Him!