Daily Devotional

July 25th 2024

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THURSDAY

Don’t lose your grip on Love and Loyalty. Tie them around your neck; carve their initials on your heart. Earn a reputation for living well in God’s eyes and the eyes of the people. Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He’s the One who will keep you on track.—Proverbs 3:3-6 (MSG)

To be like God we must have God’s characteristics. Remembering and obeying God means that love and fidelity remain with us.
As God’s Word is internalized into our hearts, it affects our actions and our motivation. Carving into the heart implies that God’s Word is permanently impressed into our being. Tying these teachings to the neck will lead to divine favor—grace, which is unmerited and undeserved.
Trusting God is not passive; it takes effort and diligence. We must disregard personal understanding and logic of experiences and circumstances. We must believe that all that happens in our lives—including suffering—is within God’s will, even though the purpose may be beyond our comprehension (Isaiah 55:8, 9; Romans 11:33 34).
God must completely be saturated into our lives; in our hearts and in our actions and habits. Acknowledging God in all aspects of life brings forth a new perspective that those who try to function without God can’t know. The life led without acknowledging God is a life that is not lived to full capacity because the perspective is limited to human understanding.
There is a promise that, if we acknowledge God, He will keep us on track. Some commentators argue that this means, “righteous and safe,” because there are less stumbling blocks when there is only one forward direction to travel in. Straight paths are often contrasted with crooked paths that lead to death in scripture (Proverbs 2:15). Others argue that it means that God will make a person honest and remove the stumbling blocks of temptation. Regardless, it can’t be argued that “on track” equals good and that by acknowledging God in our lives will lead to a good path.

Prayer: Lord God, as we go today, we seek to be more like You—in our thinking, in our behavior, in our commitment to personal holiness and to maximizing the potential that You have placed within us. Thus, we ask that You would keep us on track, as we faithfully follow where You lead us. In the name of Jesus, our Christ, we pray. AMEN!

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