Daily Devotion

August 22, 2006

Psalms 106:43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

Can we be trusted with God’s blessings?

When life rolls like a song, we seem to forget God; we take the blessings of His grace and love for granted. Like naughty children, we promise to obey the rules, and then we run to our own devices.  We get in trouble, cry for deliverance, and when God bails us out, we go right back to it. It’s distressing to realize that, in his carnal state, man often prefers sin and hell to God’s blessings and heaven.

As a dog returneth to his vomit the Bible says, so the fool returneth to his folly (Proverb 26:11). The pages of history bear witness to this fact. We seem never to learn from our past. We have a perverted hunger for territorial wars, control of strategic resources, and for ‘freedom’ from God’s wholesome way of life. The tribes of Israel were time and time again brought under the yoke of their enemies because of disobedience to God; they are like a microcosm of the spiritual attitude of the whole world; an extension of the way each one of us handle our lives.

We cannot do very much in the realm of politics, but as individuals, we have the power to change the world. Using Murphy’s law, (the fact everyone of us bears influence on at least 250 people in our lives) let us decide, each one of us, as individuals, to buck the tide of the accepted way; to be thankful for God’s blessings, prefer heaven than hell, and live a life that “walks the Bible’s talk”.

Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Patrick Lumbroso
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