OPEN
HEAVEN DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
FRAIL
IN GOD'S HANDS
MEMORISE: "My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the
light of my eyes, It also is gone from me". Psalm 38:10
READ: Psalm 39:4-7 (KJV)
4 LORD, make me to know
mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I
am.
5 Behold, thou hast made
my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every
man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man
walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up
riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope
is in thee.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Amos 1-4
MESSAGE:
In today's Bible reading
text, David asked God to make him know how frail he really was. This was a man
who witnessed how his highly-exalted king, King Saul, suddenly started acting
like a mad man on several occasions and needed music from the harp to calm him
down (1 Samuel 16:23). This was a man who used an ordinary stone to bring down
a giant that had terrorized his country for 40 days and nights (1 Samuel 17).
As humans, we have the tendency to believe that we are strong and that we are
in control, whereas, God is the One that upholds us (Isaiah 41:8-10).
In Daniel 4:30,
Nebuchadnezzar was boasting of his really great achievements, but within that
same hour, he was on all four, eating grass with the beasts of the field
(Daniel 4:31-33). He was indeed a great king, but God humbled him in an
instant. No matter how great and powerful a fellow is, God can humble him or
her in the twinkling of an eye. King Herod thought that he was powerful and
could capture and kill whoever he wanted to (Mark 6:16-17), but right in front
of his people , he was eaten up by ordinary maggots (Arts 12:23). When God
wants to show that He is in control, He can use ants to bring down an elephant.
This is why you will always see me being humble. kneeling to worship God in
public, and surrendering my all to Him. I know what I am doing because I know
that without Him, I am nothing. I know that no matter how powerful people think
I am, God can break me like a toothpick if I offend Him.
Beloved, always live
conscious of your family in God's hands don't ever think you are in control.
Keep it at the back of your mind at all times that God is in control. The
producers of a popular television show in Nigeria would always say that we are
nothing but pencils in the hand of the Creator. If you think you are better
than everyone else, know that you are just a pencil in God's hands, and He can
do with you as He pleases. Like David, ask God to always remind you of how
frail you are in His hands.
PRAYER
POINT
Father, please let me
never forget how weak and helpless I am in your hands.
© 2024 Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by
Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of
God, one of the largest evangelical Churches in the world, and also the
President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.
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