It is pretty clear that I use the same devotional track each year... I wrote about this on this date last year as well, but this is a slightly different take...
What is on your wish list? Better car? Better house? Better church? Better schools? What do you consider to be good? A certain brand of clothes? One political party over the other? Your team winning it all?
I have lists like that. Not necessarily written down, but they are there just the same.
Psalm 16:2 squashes that notion for me. The second half of the verse, “I have no other good besides You.”
No other good – includes things like marriage, family, ministry, job, big screen TV, fill in the blank… No other good – zip, zero, nada… Just Him.
I cannot honestly say that is the case with me. How about you.
What is on your wish list? Better car? Better house? Better church? Better schools? What do you consider to be good? A certain brand of clothes? One political party over the other? Your team winning it all?
I have lists like that. Not necessarily written down, but they are there just the same.
Psalm 16:2 squashes that notion for me. The second half of the verse, “I have no other good besides You.”
No other good – includes things like marriage, family, ministry, job, big screen TV, fill in the blank… No other good – zip, zero, nada… Just Him.
I cannot honestly say that is the case with me. How about you.
Not at all true of me; having just lost the most precious thing in my life other than God, I am seeing the draw to placing my deepest desires in her. Without her I feel one third of what I was. God told Ezekiel (24:16) "...behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow; but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not come." I can't relate to it at all; I have wept; I mourn, my tears flow often. But Ezekiel considered God a greater good than the "desire of his eyes." What will God do in my relationship to Him? I have many painful questions....
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