4 FEB 23 Saturday: A Closer Walk Devotional
“Don’t be misled-you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.” Galatians 6:7, 9
We can look around and see that people are looking for happiness in all the wrong places, kinda like the Jonnie Lee song. In America, we labor hard for the American dream so that we can ultimately retire and do what we like. We don’t think about how we get there or if the pursuit is really going to bear fruit or if it is this the dream that God wants for us.
Much of what we strive after is self-serving and doesn’t make us happy. We are sold a false view of what life and happiness is supposed to be. God doesn’t hold back and neither does Paul as he addresses the church at Galatia. Chasing after sinful and self-satisfying pleasures is a direct path to death. Being blessed or happy comes by pleasing the Spirit and doing good.
We are created to be his masterpiece and to do good works, first among other believers and then to the rest of the world. When we do good it pleases the Spirit and blesses others around you. It also testifies to the presence and work of God in the lives of unbelievers. Paul commends us not to grow weary in doing good because we will. The results of our good works are not always realized here, but our faithfulness is.
What kind of seeds are you planting? What do you expect to harvest?
Reading Plan: Psalm 75, 76; Isa. 57:3-13; Gal. 5:25-6:10; Mark 9:14-29
Daily Office Year 1
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