Sep 16 2024

Today's Bible Verse

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

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In this verse in Proverbs, we are told to give the Lord our hearts and to observe His ways. The Lord wants us to do this not so that He feels good, but rather, that we may experience fullness in Him. He knows that our best lives happen when we totally surrender to Him. This begins with giving our hearts to Him as we watch His ways.

What does it mean to give our hearts to the Lord? I think, on a basic level, it means that we love the Lord above all things and above all people. When we make the decision to love the Lord more than anything, we make knowing Him the primary purpose of our lives.

When we spend time getting to know the Lord, He begins to fill us with an even greater love for Him. The more we know the Lord, the more we understand His love for us—and want to know Him more! One of the best measures of spiritual maturity is the depth of our understanding of the Lord's love, because our understanding is correlated with the amount of time that we spend with the Lord.

We should also observe the Lord's ways. We can learn about His ways through the Bible as well as how He answers prayers in our own lives. When we couple these two and keep our hearts tender to seeing the Lord work in a variety of ways, we will see and experience God's faithfulness, justice, and kindness. As we grow more and more like Him, we will see these characteristics reflected in our own lives.

Today's Prayer

Dear Lord, thank you for being so kind to me and loving me so deeply. I give you my heart, Jesus, knowing that you are so loving and good. Open up my eyes so that I can learn about you and see your ways. I love you, Jesus. In your name, amen.

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Sep 15 2024

Yesterday's Bible Verse

I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

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Yesterday's Bible study

In this verse, Jesus tells the Pharisees that if they do not believe that He is God, they will die in their sins. Today, the same is true for all of us.

Without Jesus, we would lead lives of sin and ultimately die with our sin unatoned for. There would be no power to break the bondage of sin in our lives if we do not have a relationship with Jesus. There is no such thing as a good person—everyone has fallen short of who we were meant to be. Without Jesus, we have no hope of becoming anything other than sinners.

However, when we believe in Jesus, we will no longer die in our sins. We are set free from being slaves to sin on a daily level. We have the power to say no to things that are ungodly, like gossip, jealousy, cheating, and fear, and instead put on the righteousness of Christ. When we die, the blood of Jesus has covered our sins. We will have nothing to atone for because Jesus' life and death defeated the power of sin over our lives.

This is a cause for rejoicing! Jesus has paid the price that none of us ever could have. He has restored us into a right relationship with the Lord, and we get to experience His power helping us, every day of our lives, to say no again and again to our flesh and yes to the things of God.

This also gives us a passion to help other people know Him and experience His goodness. We do not want anyone to miss out on experiencing the power of forgiveness and the mercy of the Lord, and we should live our lives on a mission to share the Gospel with those around us and to whomever God calls us.

Yesterday's Prayer

Dear Lord, I thank you so much for Jesus. I thank you that you don't see me as a sinner but instead your child. Help me to walk in your mercy and your grace. Fill me up with your love, Lord, that I may share your love and grace with others around me. In Jesus' name, amen.


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