So I was figuring out what devotional I wanted to do this week. I had two that I wanted to post. So I decided to combine them together. So here’s two for you :)
No. 1) Mum came to me this morning and told me how my room stunk because of my bird. Now I had been meaning to clean his cage out, but hadn’t had the time. I didn’t think it was too bad. But boy, was mum right. It was pretty bad. But I thought to myself, how easy it is for me to become like this bird cage. I get so dirty and stinky on the inside. Anger, resentment, bitterness, hate, ect, start filling my heart, and pretty quickly I become a filthy cage that needs to be cleaned out. I used to think that as a Christian, we wouldn’t struggle with those things. But it seems like the enemy attacks us with those feelings even more so when we are saved. That’s what it feels like to me anyway. But what is frustrating to me, is that I can’t clean my heart of those things by myself no matter how hard I try. Only God can. But all too often I want to do clean it by myself, so I don’t take those feelings to God. Then I end up a mess. A mess over due to be cleaned. Instead of trying to clean by myself, I need to run to God and tell him my feelings, and ask him to clean me. Here’s a few verses from Psalm 51: Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgression and my sin is ever before me...Behold I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me...Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow...hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit...The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
No.2) If you’re anything like me, you like to be in control. Controlling even the most smallest details. If you are like me, then you will also like to have everything figured out and organised. I have to watch out with this, cause while it’s good to be organised, organising God is not good. And I’m very prone to doing this. I think I know what God should be doing, so when he doesn’t do what I wanted or asked him to do, I think he has disappeared, therefore forgetting his promises that say he’ll never leave me or forsake me. I like things to happen without trouble and to happen right then and there. So when God doesn’t work in the my timeframe, I get angry and frustrated at him and tell him he’s too slow. But it says in the bible that God is unchangeable. Therefore, he will not change to fit in with what I want. Instead, I need to change. I need to change in my attitude. Instead of telling him what to do, instead of telling him he’s so slow, I need to humbly submit to his authority and timeframe. Maybe what I’m asking for will only come to pass in heaven, so I need to change my will to his, humbly submitting to his authority, knowing that he knows what is best for me.
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