MY
DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion
for Sunday January 29, 2017
Topic:
Reasons Behind Trials
Text:
Deuteronomy 8:1 – 3
There are reasons God allows us to
pass through tests and trials. We don’t go through them without a purpose. In
the book of Job, we saw that all the problems, losses and sickness that came
upon Job were to test his fidelity unto God because He had boasted to Satan
that Job was ever faithful to Him. When Job was going through them, he never
knew that what came upon him were tests. He endured them to the shame of Satan,
thereby proving God faithful. Thereafter, God restored all that he lost.
The trial of Job is an eye opener for
us never to become unfaithful to God when we are in problem. We should remain
focused because God may have allowed that problem; death of a benefactor,
sickness, gang up against you in the office, etc, as a way of trying our faith.
In our text, Moses told the Israelites
that they should remain faithful and obedient to God because when He took them
through the wilderness, it was aimed at humbling them so as to know what was in
their hearts, whether they would keep His commandments or not. In the process
of humbling them, He allowed them to go hungry, and fed them with manna which
they didn’t know nor did their fathers know. This issue of manna was to make
them know that man shall not live by bread
alone; but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Remember the case
of Paul in 2 Corinthians 12: 7 – 9. That problem made Paul not to exalt himself
above measure. All we pass through in life are for lessons and experiences; go
through them faithful and God will certainly reward you at the end.
Food
for Thought: God
permits tribulations to come upon us which He turns to our advantage and to the
glory of His name.
Memory
verse: Deuteronomy
8 verse 3 - And He humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which
you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that
man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from
the mouth of the Lord.
Prayer:
God,
turn tribulations I am facing to my advantage and to your praise, and glory in
Jesus name. Amen.
