The Word of God for wisdom:
Proverbs 21:17 (MSG)
You're addicted to thrills? What an empty life! The pursuit of pleasure is never satisfied.
The Word of God for inspiration:
Psalm 116:1-2 (NASB)
1 I love the Lord, because He hears My voice and my supplications. 2 Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.
The Word of God for encouragement:
Matthew 6:19-21 (HCSB)
19 "Don't collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don't break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
My observation:
In today's focal passage from the Sermon on the Mount Jesus talks about the topic of possessions. Jesus knew love of things would consume us if we did not have the proper attitude toward them. Someone has said that we should love people and use things. Many get this backwards; they use people and love things.
My prayer:
Father God, my dear Father, I pray that you would help me to get my heart in the right place. Father, you are a good God, and you provide abundantly for your people who put their trust in you. Father, help me to be like the Psalmist who experienced the dark day of trouble in his life, but found that God was right there in the midst of his day of distress. Father, may I respond with a heart of gratitude like the Psalmist did. Father, I thank you for being a God of mercy who cares for those who take refuge in you.
Nahum 1:7 (HCSB)
The Lord is good, a stronghold in a day of distress; He cares for those who take refuge in Him.
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2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
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