October 4 & 5, 2025 – It Is Good

It Is Good
October 4 & 5, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 4:1-2
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

     “Someday, son, you will see I am right,” or “When will you learn, child, that when I tell you something, I know what I am talking about?” These words have rung in my ears for years. My dad would tell me something, and I would, for some silly reason, believe my way was better. Guess what, it was not!

     Proverbs 4:1 says, “Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father.” The word instruction here, in Hebrew, carried the meaning of discipline. It could say the discipline of your father.

     What did you think of when you read the word discipline? I know I think of getting a spanking. That is one form of discipline used when I would not obey. However, that is a discipline I received for a discipline I would not obey. You see, the word “discipline” also includes the meaning of controlled behavior. The father in today’s passage is telling his son, using one word, you choose which it will be. If you hear of the disciplines, which I, your father, have learned by years of practice, and then apply them as directed, you can avoid the disciplines that come from disobedience.

     This is exactly what all of life is about. It is about learning to live with disciplines. That is what Jesus was doing while here on earth. He was teaching the disciplines of life to His disciples. If they would learn and then adhere to them, the blessing from God would follow. If they went about their own way, they would also suffer the consequences of disobedience. When God, in Genesis 1, created this earth and everything on it, it was all set in order and disciplined. And He said, “it is good.”

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

    How many times do you need to bump your head on something before you learn to duck? How many times must we see that God’s ways are always the best before we will obey? When we do His will and willingly follow His disciplines for life, “It is Good.“

Who or a “We Can God?

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself what MY THOUGHTS are 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: October 4, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1,/NT & PS-2,/Prov-Monthly)}
Jeremiah 35-37 / Psalm 82
Proverbs 4 / Acts 13-15

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Isa. 1-4  /  Eph. 2

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 your Pastor exactly what He desires for you on that day.  

GOD TALKING TO ME: October  5, 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