Wednesday, October 25th
Today’s Scripture
“Here’s my life motto, the truth I live by: I will guard my ways for all my days. I will speak only what is right, guarding what I speak. Like a watchman guards against an attack of the enemy, I’ll guard and muzzle my mouth when the wicked are around me. I will remain silent and will not grumble or speak out of my disappointment. But the longer I’m silent the more my pain grows worse! My heart burned with a fire within me, and my thoughts eventually boiled over until they finally came rolling out of my mouth. “Lord, help me to know how fleeting my time on earth is. Help me to know how limited is my life and that I’m only here but for a moment more. What a brief time you’ve given me to live! Compared to you my lifetime is nothing at all! Nothing more than a puff of air, I’m gone so swiftly. So too are the grandest of men; they are nothing but a fleeting shadow!” Pause in his presence We live our lives like those living in shadows. All our activities and energies are spent for things that pass away. We gather, we hoard, we cling to our things, only to leave them all behind for who knows who. And now, God, I’m left with one conclusion: my only hope is to hope in you alone! Save me from being overpowered by my sin; don’t make me a disgrace before the degenerate. Lord, I’m left speechless and I have no excuse, so I’ll not complain any longer. Now I know you’re the one who is behind it all.
Psalm 39:1-9
Today’s Thought
Disappointment is inevitable but your response to it can be catastrophic… It’s your response to life and disappointment that determines the outcome of your life… It’s not the challenges in life that destroy us, it’s our response to them that does it…
Today’s Confession
Lord, I know that disappointment happens in life, and how I react to it can be detrimental to me. Thank you for your peace and guidance, Lord. When those kinds of situations present themselves, my reaction is not fear based, rather it’s filtered through your Word, and I am protected and guided by you.