Devotional Thoughts
Churches are abuzz with a factual phrase… 
“It’s not about us; it’s all about Him!”
The sooner we get that through our thick heads and hardened hearts the better off we’ll all be.
“For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen (Romans 11:36 NAS).”
Most of us wear the same clothes very often, even though we fill our closets with many more choices. Similarly, we seem to have favorite words and phrases.
Just off the top of my head, I can come up with two of my husband Norm’s words used in repetition, ‘stuff’ and ‘potential.’ The first annoys me; the latter challenges me.
He sees the potential while I see the problem.
Abraham, when pressured with problems, saw potential in impossibilities!
“He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist. Against hope, with hope he believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what had been spoken: So will your descendants be (Romans 4:17b-18 HCS).”
It is not logical.
How could such a minute speck of dust or an eyelash under my eyelid be so painful? A splinter in my hand, so small that I need a magnifying glass to see it, can cause throbbing pain.
The unwelcome guests cause irritation; the probing to find and remove them goes beyond irritation to pain.
My removal process is in itself painstaking. If my eye is the problem area, I have to stand extremely close before a lit up mirror. Old age is robbing me of close-up vision. Once I find the culprit, I use a cotton swab in the delicate removal process. If the intruder is a splinter in my right hand, I have a major dilemma.
Being right handed, the wielding of a sterilized needle in my left hand for probing and extraction is haphazard. My sin is not easy to detect with the naked eye; the Holy Spirit shines His light on it, using conviction and the sword of the Spirit as instruments, He brings the transgression to the surface.
“For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating as far as to divide soul, spirit, joints, and marrow; it is judge of the ideas and thoughts of the heart. No creature is hidden from Him but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account (Hebrews 4:12-13 HCS).”
Ever been blindsided on a bind date?
In my teen years, I had many dates that fell under the blind date category. Two or three of the boys I paired off with were what in my day were popularly labeled losers.
On the brighter side, I am in the blessed state of wedlock with my last blind date. We will celebrate our 50th Wedding Anniversary in three years.
Saul, in his blind date trauma trusted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, becoming the Apostle Paul. (Acts 9:1-18)
A bright heavenly light blinded his eyes. God sent a reluctant messenger to restore his sight. (Acts 9:10-18)
“Immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once; and he arose and was baptized (Acts 9:18 NKJ).”
The jury is still out on the health benefits of vitamin and mineral supplements.
Some tout their effectiveness while others say they do little to improve our over-all health.
Personally, I can tell a big difference when I take certain vitamins. Married to a ‘vegetarian,’ I have occasionally suffered with anemia. When I’ve ‘added’ iron supplements to my diet, I’ve had increased energy.
Spiritually, I benefit from specific character traits and virtues.
“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge, self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love (2 Peter 1:5-7 NKJ). Some ‘pop vitamins.’
I prefer the pursuit of virtues.
“For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:8 NKJ).”
