Today's (February 23, 2013) theme of our Devotion is "TRUST AND CONTENTMENT".
"Quiet Trust in God is the basis of our Contentment"
observes King David in Psalms 131. A quiet trust in God can only come
if one submits or surrenders oneself to God. You do not achieve
contentment in life because you think you can be friends to the world
and God at the same time. You cannot be a friend of the world and be a friend of God. St James explains this better in his letter, James 4:1-8
" What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”
but shows favor to the humble.”
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up."
What do you need to do in order to be a friend of God? you may ask: The bible is clear:
"Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up" (James 4:10)
God's Blessing!
By Rev Aba Mpesha,
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