In the devotional for a day, many things, events, and subjects may come from my experience, a quick reading of a Bible verse, or even something I see in another e-mail message. However, when it comes to the writing of a devotional, it is God, His precious Holy Spirit, and His Son Jesus Christ who make up the object of our devotion. We want to see the Triune God in His holiness, in His almighty ways, His provision, and especially His great love for us.
As faith takes hold of lives given to Christ, we want to hear what the Lord did in the beginning. Facing the end times, we want to hear what God will do and of His great renewal of the earth and heavens. We like to read in the Word, both our favorite stories and those that instruct us in the mistakes and sins that people much like us made back in their day. God's perfect law becomes less a whip to drive us and more of a standard that one day God will create in us. We look forward to the completion of God's work and His Revelation. We most definitely long for the return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ.
As our devotion to God grows, so grows our devotion to each other. And thus we learn and grow into those two great commandments Jesus gave to all.
Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:29-31)
Bucky
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