MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Sunday March 8, 2016
Topic: Lend To God
Text: Proverbs 19:17
Our
text for the day is a very interesting one because many people are confused
about it and they have kept acting ignorantly. A friend gave me this request: “My Pastor, please help me in prayer. I am
going through terrible bad times. I am so badly indebted. Nothing is moving
around me and I have been seeking God’s face to help me. The more I am sowing
the seed, the more things are getting worse. Cash, my electronics, my jeep car,
all I have given with hope to be better but the opposite is what I get. I am so
much indebted. Please pray for me.”
What
led this friend into debt is ignorance and lack of basic foundation of
Christian faith. Lending to God must not be with conditions or with intent to
receive more. God is not a lottery. It must come from a heart of love for God
and the recipient.
Our
text says that the best investment of our property is in deeds of charity.
Compassion is the inward principle of charity in the heart and it is to have
pity on the poor. You may not have a kobo for the poor, yet you can have pity
for them, a charitable concern and sympathy bearing in mind what Paul sail in 1
Corinthians 13:3. See also Isaiah 58:10.
Lending
to the Lord or seed sowing should not be
a priority due to desire to have more rather due to love for God and humanity. Anything outside of this will amount to
regret of your charitable deeds and seed sowing. Let the love for God propel us
in giving to God and fellow human beings in need.
Food for Thought: Isaiah 58:10
Memory verse: Proverbs 28:27
Prayer:
Lord God, may love for you propel me into charitable deeds and seed sowing.
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