First And Last Words
January 16, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 16:3
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

    I have read several books over the years. Some were better than others. For example, I had to read a textbook for a counseling class. Reading that book seemed like work. Then there are the books that just draw me into them as if the story had been written around me. It was as if the author knew what would captivate my every thought and wrote this book just for me. Even during the day when I wasn’t reading it, I found myself thinking about it. When I got around others, my conversations would often wind up somehow mentioning the book and the author. These are by far my favorite books to read.

    I believe this idea of losing ourselves into something is what the author of our verses today had in mind. If we commit ourselves to the Lord, I mean completely fall in love with Him, then all we do and say becomes praise and worship of who He is. In addition, all our thoughts will automatically be established in Him. When Jesus becomes the center of our life, everything we say and do causes us to think of Him. We can actually get lost in Jesus just as we do in the pages of a really good book.

    In John 1:1, it says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Jesus is the word into which we need to let our minds escape into each and every day. He was the first word of all History and should have the last word in all our lives.

     

 

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

     As you do your Bible readings today, read with the desire of the psalmist in your heart when He wrote Psalm 119:18 which says; “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” Then walk in the revelation of His person all day. Get lost in Jesus today.

Where will your mind wander 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:  JANUARY 16, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1, NT & PS-2, Prov-Monthly)}
Genesis 30 – Psalm 16
Proverbs 16 – Matthew 21

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
 Genesis 33-34  – Matthew 11:20-30