Daily Devotionals
Daily Devotional: Psalms 115:14-18
Psalms 115:14-18
14 May the LORD make you increase, both you and your children. 15 May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. 16 The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to man. 17 It is not the dead who praise the LORD, those who go down to silence; 18 it is we who extol the LORD, both now and forevermore. Praise the LORD.
Who can count the many blessings of God? How can his goodness toward us be measured? When love is so great that it cannot be fathomed, how can we even begin to understand how deep, how wide and how long it really is? Our God is so far above us and his wisdom so much greater than ours, how can we even know all the good he does for us every day? The obvious answer to all these questions is that we cannot count or measure God.
As most of us live in our luxury with more freedoms that a vast part of the world’s population can even imagine and with many friends who encourage us to serve God, we cannot see all that God is doing for us daily. We forget that there are many who are faithfully serving God in places where they are persecuted if they are found and they have few (if any) friends who even believe in Jesus as the Christ or God as the creator. Most of the people in the world exist on less than many of us throw in the garbage every day and yet we don’t even see the many blessings we have showered upon us from God.
God is so good and we praise him for his love and his care for us. We don’t need to worry about things because we know he is in control and will take care of us and our needs. What we can do is live for him and show others Jesus as they see him living in us. We can use his name with respect and never as a bye word or in a flippant way. We can honor him as we stand up for what is right as revealed in his word. We can treat him as our God and do so with joy.
So we pray and we ask him to lead us in his paths of righteousness. We ask him for his protection and all of our needs but we do so with thanksgiving. We honor him from our hearts and not just with our lips.
Lord God, I praise you as Lord and as God. Your strength is beyond my ability to understand and your wisdom makes me look foolish. Your love is everlasting and I thank you for allowing me to be your child. I am so thankful that I can live in the United States of America and enjoy all of the freedoms that you have given me. I thank you for the luxuries that abound in my life. Open my eyes to see just how blessed I really am and help me turn this realization into praise, thanksgiving and a deeper commitment to serving you. Please be with those in other places that do not have these and give them strength to be faithful. In Jesus name I pray.
--Robert
