DAILY DEVOTIONAL – November 13, 2020
“Dig Deep”
Prayer: God, we worship You because You are God; the only Unchanging One, the only One who is perfectly faithful to His Word. Thank you Lord for Your faithfulness to us, even as You hung on the cross for our sins. Amen.
Scripture: Psalm 1:1-4
Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
Devotional – “Dig Deep”
If there is one thing that is certain in this life, it is that nothing is certain. Change is the only constant.
Change can be scary. Change can be helpful and/or hurtful. Change can be reinvigorating, or it can be exhausting. Change can be a lot of things to us, but the one thing change will never be, is consistent. Change won’t change.
I think what makes the seasons of change in our life so difficult and scary is the unknown. We know things will change, but we don’t know how or when or why or what new realities change will bring. Unless you are deeply rooted, the winds of change will leave you bruised and battered and will blow away all of our joy and happiness. Having deep roots is important, but even the deepest roots will be uprooted in the winds of change unless they are found to be buried in the right soil. If the ground in which you plant your roots shifts with the wind or is unstable, then so are you, and then you’re no less subject to the unpredictable winds of change than a fallen leaf.
How we endure through change and how we endure through each season of life very much influences where we find ourselves in the future. Not just where we are rooted but also how deeply our roots go will greatly affect not only how we experience and thrive in the season we are in, but also the experiences we will have in the seasons yet to come.
The only consistency that exists in this life or the next, the only solid ground that exists in which we can confidently plant our roots deeply, is the Word of God, God Himself and in His Son Jesus Christ. Living this life rooted in the Word of God, reading, and meditating and living in His Word both day and night as our text says in Psalm 1 is the only hope we have of enduring the seasons of change in life and the only way that we can bear good fruit and thrive even in the driest of summers and the coldest of winters.
Everyone and everything in this life will change many times. God, however, says in Malachi 3:6, “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.” And Hebrews 13:8 says that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.”
Since the very first sin in the Garden of Eden, God promised that He would provide salvation in a son born of woman. Despite sinful mankind’s rebellion against God and His grace, despite the inconsistency of our love toward God, God’s love for us never wavered in the least. As God continued to promise through the His prophets, despite our sinfulness God would remain faithful and unchanging in His mercy, and as promised, the Word of God itself became flesh in Jesus Christ and saved us from sin and death by dying in our place and rising again to give us new life. And that Risen Lord Jesus says to us in John 15:5, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
No matter the season or the changes we go through, by God’s grace through faith in Christ our salvation is secure and we remain the children of God. Stay rooted in His love and His Word my friends, and remember, that God has forgiven yesterday, is with you today and has already taken care of tomorrow. Amen.
