MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Thursday September 3, 2020
Topic: A Day
of Reckoning
Text: Malachi 3: 13 – 18
Few days before I wrote this devotion, I read a story of a
transgender who said that God is daft and senseless. My comment was that she/he
was digging her grave. If in this present age of knowledge, she doesn’t know
that there is a day of reckoning then she is a serious mistake to the society.
The act of this transgender turned lady now is similar to what we have in Malachi
3:13 and 14.
In 2014, there was a couple that publicly burnt their Bible in
Bonsac area of Asaba because God didn’t give them a child. Their action was
reciting the words in Malachi 3:14 that it is useless to serve God. There is a
challenge for us in Malachi 3:16 about encouraging one another especially in a
society as bad as ours today. Family Bible Notes puts it thus: “When infidelity
and wickedness most abound in the community, then is the time for those who
fear God to be most diligent in speaking often one to another, and encouraging
each other in his service.”
These people saw no need of serving God because He does not notice
and reward their empty and heartless forms of religion. God cannot be mocked.
You can only reap what you sow as seed. For now, it may seem as if God put no
difference between the righteous and the wicked. However, He will one day make
an everlasting separation between them, such as all beings in heaven and hell
shall well understand. This is the day of reckoning. Where do you think you
belong in this two – hell or heaven?
Food for Thought: How prepared are you towards the day of reckoning?
Memory verse: Malachi 3 v 18
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