Sunday, July 20, 2008

Time for Everything, Importancy of Bible

Devotion
Today's devotion i learn about Time, and the author talked about Psalms 139

1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.

5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to [b] me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.

19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.

21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?

22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

I learnt that our God is an omni-present God, and that God's timing is the best, as verse 16 says, "In Your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them." If we're believers of Christ, we can be confident that death is an open door to eternal life with Jesus! God's timing is perfect, even in death!

Quiet Time

I realised the importance of my bible, and how much joy it brings to me when i read it, and when i talk to God. I Regretted leaving it there alone, for like how many months, and today my friend talked with me about Christ, i managed to bring him back onto doing his quiet time. I've learnt alot from it myself too. I learnt that the importance of Quiet time, and all those things. I tried to live with integrity today! I kept forgetting and i exaggerated alot. So yeah, gotta pray for me that i can live a week of integrity today! Thank you Lord :)

1 comment:

CJOSE said...

yup. we dont neo when we gonna see God again. So do all we can!
Life live to the fullest for God!
Do things that bring Him GLORY!
jIA YOU!!- integrety. speak the way that Jesus would speak when in ur sheo...always ask urself! josephine here :)