February 8 & 9, 2025 – What’s On Your GOD SHELF?

What’s On Your GOD SHELF?

February 8 & 9, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Exodus 23:32-33
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

 

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

 

    Here in the United States of America, the vast majority of the people who live here put on the front of worshiping only one God. Almost anyone you might talk with would say, “I have no idols or false gods which I worship.” Really?

 

    I heard a young preacher deliver a message to his youth group entitled “God Shelf.” The basic idea was this. You have one shelf in your life. On this shelf, you may only have one item at a time. Whatever is most important to you right now goes on this shelf. If the one true God is there, you are in good shape. However, what if a job becomes more important to you than God does? A job is only one possibility. It could be that a girlfriend, spouse, position, fame, or whatever has become more important than God is right now. Then you must take God down off the God shelf and place that item in its place. Only one item can be there on the God shelf at a time.

 

    Can you see the problem? It seems that we live our lives often wanting to rotate God on and off this shelf. Truly, only the one true God of the Bible who created everything, should be on our God shelf. After all, it is named after Him!   

  

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

 

    The young Pastor hit it on the head when he preached on this “God Shelf.” Let me ask you, what has possibly taken the place of God on your God Shelf today? Whatever it is, don’t you think it is time to remove it and place God back in His rightful position in your life?

 

What is on your “God Shelf” today?\

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and today’s Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

 

  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  February 8, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1,/NT & PS-2,/Prov-Monthly)}
Exodus 23-25 – Psalm 35:17-28 
Proverbs 8-9 – Mark 16

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Exodus 31-33 Matthew 24:27-51

 

WHAT TO DO ON SUNDAY:

    There will not be a Daily Devotion sent out on Sundays. Instead, we encourage you to attend your church and listen intently to what God has prepared in the heart of your Pastor. Write down all the scriptures he uses in that message, then when you get home re-read those passages for today’s reading. God has given to your Pastor exactly what He desires for you on that day.  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  February 9, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1,/NT & PS-2,/Prov-Monthly)}
NO READINGS ON SUNDAY

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
NO READINGS ON SUNDAY