Simple Devotions

Tag: Gods Word

  • no other way

    Soon this place we call home will not be habitual.

    Not a comforting thought I understand but it’s the truth.

    The signs are sure that life here on earth is wrapping up.

    You don’t have to agree but you should at least look around and consider what the world is doing, saying. Life on mars? No, thanks.

    If you are good at timelines and dates you should find this interesting, did you know that the 6,000 year anniversary of Jesus baptism is in 2027 or that His death and resurrection anniversary is in 2031.

    You may be wondering what this means, well if numbers play any role. The number six is biblically the number “of labor” and the seventh number means “completion or rest”.

    The book of Revelation talks about a 1000 year period or rest in heaven with the saints.

    This would be I imagine where a 1000 year of completion would likely begin but it’s just me piecing the puzzle together.

    Meanwhile, throughout the Word we are told to be ready for the day of judgment, no one knows the day or hour but stand ready.

    This book is the most under read book in the world today, but it has the lessons and keys to being ready.

    So how can we stand ready about what we don’t know?

    The best and only way to be ready is to trust and obey God’s Word.

    Trust the plan of Salvation – if you don’t know it, study to learn.

    Obey the Word of the Lord, not just the favorite memory verses or parts that you like, the whole of it.

    When we give our attention to any task, setting our minds to accomplish the thing we want – it happens.

    Do you want to see Jesus?

    Do you want enternal life?

    I hope you said yes.

    As we seek to learn and give our time in effort to learn about God, we are given new understanding.

    What this means is we are no longer living in vain for self because we became interested in the working out of God’s plans for our lives.

    By God’s Word we learn of His promises, and through His Spirit He changes our hearts by the testimony of what His Son Jesus Christ did for us.

    Because of this we learn to trust and obey His Word, how to walk His way, in His truth and into eternal life.

    All working together for our good.

    It is not by our strength or might but by every word of the living God.

    It’s the only way.

    In Christ love, amen

  • hope found

    Every time I try to do life on my own terms, I stumble and fall.

    And every time I come to the realization I am in need of help, the only place I have found it consistently was in the pages of God’s book, the Holy Word of God.

    The seeds of hope in those pages are what feeds my faith, its words will set my emotions straight and give clarity in moments when nothing makes sense.

    And when I surrender my will towards His ways, this is how repentance begins. It’s a process of sanctification.

    His words cause the troubled heart to lay down its brokenness, so that it may be healed.

    The only way to describe this simply is like “seeing the truth and knowing it is going to change your life.”

    This is what the Word does.

    Psalm 119:89, God’s word is eternal as the Universe. Never changing. But always changing the hearts and minds of men who would take counsel from it. His faithfulness never ends.

    He created the earth and it endures no matter what men say, because of God’s love and care. Because of His word, nothing stops, it only cycles – unending and only His word will change this.

    Everything He created serves Him. And it is because of His Word I have not given up in despair.

    So why then should we invest our thoughts and time anywhere else.

    There is no person, place or thing that would ever give what He gives. There is no void to big for Him to fill~He is the way to hope. He will make a way every time we ask. We only have to look to His Word.

    Life is fragile handle with care – His care.

    This is where HOPE IS FOUND.

    In Christ love, Amen