So this is my third installment in my ongoing series of Daily Devotionals that I have been doing. I just finished this one so I am typing it up for all of you to read and I hope that you like it and maybe learn a little something along the way as well. Please feel free to express any thoughts or feelings about anything that I say, whether you agree with me or not or if you simply have a different take on it. Thank you for reading and I pray that the Holy Spirit of God would move in your hearts and minds and souls as you read this, and that if you know God you would come to know God more and more everyday, and that if you don't know God that a seed would be planted in your soul that would later grow into you having a relationship with God, who only wants to have a relationship with you as well.
Life can only be found in God by Michael James Waymire
S (Scripture)- Deuteronomy 8:3- "He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord".
O (observation)- We all have physical bodies. These physical bodies need food and water and rest to function properly and even for us to live at all. But beyond and within our physical bodies are our eternal souls, and our eternal souls need connection and interaction and intimacy with God to be able to function properly, live, learn, grow, and thrive. That is why this piece of scripture tells us that "man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord". We need God in order to not only be the people that we were always meant to be, and the best people and the most content and happy people that we can be, but more importantly we need God in order to simply exist and not fall apart or cease to be like some sort of machine that has succumbed to rust or ran out of energy in its batteries. Only through the Love and support and relationship with God can a person truly live and not just simply loaf around like a sponge. God is the creator of life, God is the key to unlocking life within yourself continuously, and God is the only way to finding true life and a reason to be. All else is a lie, and all else leads to and only brings death. So turn to God, and give him a chance, and allow him to create life over and over again within your body and soul that has been ravaged by sin and death.
A (application)- I need to spend more time with God. I need to spend more time with him at work, even when work is stressing me out or bringing me down, I need to strive harder to reconnect with him and gain the life that he has for me. I need to spend time with God in the morning, even though I am tired and annoyed that I have to get up early, I still need to connect with him and give him the praise due to him, and thus gain energy, and strength, and love, and life from him and with him. Overall I need to simply spend more time with Jesus, who is the greatest friend that I will ever have, and who is more importantly my Lord and my savior, who saved my life and gives me life, every single day that I am alive. I need to spend more time with God, so that I can truly be the person that I was always meant to be, and so that I can do the things that I was always meant to do, and so that I can truly live life to the upmost fullest as well, because life away from God is death.
P (prayer)- Lord I pray that I would spend more time with you. I don't want to TRY to spend more time with you, I want to actually spend more time with you. I don't just want to spend more time with you because it is beneficial to me in many ways to do so, but because I love you and just want to be around you a lot more and have you be around me more and more as well. Please help me to spend more time with you, and help me to experience more of your life and less of the worlds death. In Jesus name I pray Amen.
To those of you who read this, thank you for doing so, and please tell me what you think and what your thoughts are on all of this. I hope you all know that Jesus Christ died on the cross because he loved you in a way that the rest of the universe cannot love you, and he only wants to know you and for you to know him, and for you to experience his life, his love, his joy, his purpose for you life, and to heal you and save you over and over again from sin and death. Jesus died so that he could spend time with you, and if you give him a chance and just take a step and give him a little of your time, you can and you will find true life and true freedom in him. I am not here to prove any other religions wrong, I am here to remind people to spend time with Jesus, because in Jesus you will find truth and love and life. Thanks again for reading and may the Holy Spirit of God move within you towards a relationship with God and may the will of God be done in all of your lives and may the enemy be silenced and thrown out and away from your life as well. In Jesus name I pray Amen.
