Daily Devotionals
Daily Devotional: Proverbs 27:1-5
Prov 27:1-5
1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. 2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth, a stranger, and not your own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. 4 Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? 5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
James 4:13-16
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
As a young child we look forward to the day that we will be ten years old! That is really a milestone, and we just can’t wait! Then we realize that it is thirteen that makes us a real teenager, so we want to be thirteen. Now we are waiting on twenty-one, then twenty-five, but all of a sudden, we realize that thirty begins to mark us as getting old. Then before we have time, we are fifty, then sixty, until one day we wake up to realize that we are seventy and almost eighty. Where has time gone, or even more importantly, where has my life gone?!
Enjoy today. Be thankful for today. Praise God for today. Use today to help someone who needs your help. Make someone else’s day brighter with a smile or a kind word or just by listening to them. Visit someone who is shut in. Call someone who is lonely. Send a card to someone who needs to be reminded that there is somebody who cares about them. Use today for the glory of God.
If you are still young and maybe have some children at home, enjoy them today. A young lady asked me yesterday: “when will things slow down”? I told her it would be when her three children are out of the house but then she will wish she had these days back to enjoy them and the hectic lifestyle she endures today. “Today is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
O Lord God, eternal and all powerful, thank you for allowing me to be alive today and for all of the days that I have had in my life. Help me slow down and be an encourager to those around me. Use me to show the love of Jesus to everyone with whom I come in contact today. Thank you for all the “things” you have put in my life but help me remember that these will all perish. Thank you for loving me and for the people who have shown me how to love others, especially when I was not loveable. It is a joy to be your child. I humbly pray in the name of Jesus.
Robert
