A Excellent Question
11/14/07 09:25 AM Filed in: Daily
Devotionals | Strength
For The Journey
The following
devotional was taken from
"Strength for
the Journey" and written by David
Deffenbaugh.
March 1
Daily Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 20-21; Galatians 4:21-5:12
An Excellent Question
Devotional Text: Galatians 4:30
Where should one go for advice, direction, and instruction? Finding someone who knows what they are talking about is a good objective. When traveling in a strange town and needing directions to a local site, pulling into a convenience store to ask a clerk may be sufficient to get good information. But that would not be an advisable source for financial or medical advice. Where one goes to get advice very much depends on the nature of the advice needed.
What about things spiritual? What about religion? What about faith in God and Jesus Christ? Believe it or not, there are a number of potential sources for advice: family, friends, tradition, clergy, theologians. Some of these are very willing but maybe not the most reliable sources. The question posed by Paul is excellent advice itself, “But what do the Scriptures say?” The Bible is a reliable guide. Its guidance and instruction is from God. “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psa. 119:105).
The thing about advice and directions is that they are only as good as far as we are willing to follow them. The directions given by the convenience store clerk may be 100% right, but if I fail to follow them, I will not find my destination. So, part of this issue is whether or not we actually want to accomplish, achieve, or obtain what God has in mind. That’s what His word is all about. Or, are we more interested in pleasing our family and peers? Fitting in with others? Feeling good about ourself? There’s nothing inherently wrong with those things, but they’re not always consistent with God’s will either.
So, the bottom line here, then, is if one isn’t interested most in God’s will, it really doesn’t matter what the Scriptures say.
Daily Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 20-21; Galatians 4:21-5:12
An Excellent Question
Devotional Text: Galatians 4:30
Where should one go for advice, direction, and instruction? Finding someone who knows what they are talking about is a good objective. When traveling in a strange town and needing directions to a local site, pulling into a convenience store to ask a clerk may be sufficient to get good information. But that would not be an advisable source for financial or medical advice. Where one goes to get advice very much depends on the nature of the advice needed.
What about things spiritual? What about religion? What about faith in God and Jesus Christ? Believe it or not, there are a number of potential sources for advice: family, friends, tradition, clergy, theologians. Some of these are very willing but maybe not the most reliable sources. The question posed by Paul is excellent advice itself, “But what do the Scriptures say?” The Bible is a reliable guide. Its guidance and instruction is from God. “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psa. 119:105).
The thing about advice and directions is that they are only as good as far as we are willing to follow them. The directions given by the convenience store clerk may be 100% right, but if I fail to follow them, I will not find my destination. So, part of this issue is whether or not we actually want to accomplish, achieve, or obtain what God has in mind. That’s what His word is all about. Or, are we more interested in pleasing our family and peers? Fitting in with others? Feeling good about ourself? There’s nothing inherently wrong with those things, but they’re not always consistent with God’s will either.
So, the bottom line here, then, is if one isn’t interested most in God’s will, it really doesn’t matter what the Scriptures say.
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