April 17, 2024 … Following God’s “GPS” …

April 17, 2024 …  Following God’s “GPS”  …      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Jeremy Camp singing … Living Word …  Powerfully singing of how God gives His living word to guide us to make Godly choices along the road of life. 

Our "GPS" is God's Word ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Proverbs 14:8  [NLT] …  

8   The prudent understand where they are going,  but fools deceive themselves.   </i>          

… Prudent people make wise choices whereas fools are deceive and make poor choices.                                            

Highlight Passage (in context): … Proverbs 14:8-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s word, thru Solomon, calls for believers to make prudent Godly  choices.                         

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK  …  

… God, through the teaching Solomon in God’s word, calls on God’s people to trust in God so He, The Lord, can lead us in working for God’s glory.

Reference Passage: …  Isaiah 41:9-10 [NLT] …   USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Isaiah, declares that His strength will lead us in life when we choose to trust and follow God’s will and HIS ways.    

Reference Passage:…  Matthew 11:28-30 [NLT] …   USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus cals His disciples and faithful followers to give them (us) rest when we CHOOSE to yoke ourselves to His will .  

Reference Passage:  … Colossians 3:17 [NLT]  … 

17 And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.  

… Paul charges fellow Christians to do whatever we’re called to do in life a a representative of our Lord, Jesus.      

Reference Passage:  … 2Timothy 3:16-17 [NLT]  … USE THIS LINK …  

… God has give His chosen and faithful followers His word to lead us where we go in life.      

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Arthur Jackson -  AT THIS LINK -   told of a Pastor, named Damien, whose pastoral schedule one day included visiting two dying members of his church in the hospital.  And when he had completed the day he noted that one room, that of a beloved man who had lived a life following God’s word, was peaceful and serene.  But the atmosphere of the other man who had lived a life or selfish, ungodly, choices was tense and filled with bitterness.   

The Pastor’s visits illustrated clearly that we have choices to make in life and how we choose to travel will dramatically show us where we’ll end up at the end our road.  And for me, … and perhaps you … , we need to have a perfectly reliable “GPS” to help us find the way to make right - and Godly - choices so that we end up where God is calling us to go at the end of our road.  And that “GPS” for me has become - and will always be - God’s word.  

So, after my readers have take in the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, I pray that we’ll be pursuing God’s way in life, rather than taking the fool’s way by following our own selfish direction.  Oh, how I pray - here today - that you agree and we’ll both use God’s Positional System (“GPS”) as we move on down His road today.                                            

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing me the way to go today.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … to use Your word, Lord, as our “GPS” today and then again tomorrow. … Amen

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