Busy In the Word

AYEAR AGO TODAY THIS WAS POSTED ON DEVOTIONAL TREASURES. I HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT, AND WAS BLESSED BY READING IT AGAIN – THUS THERE ARE BENEFITS TO HAVING A BAD MEMORY. I PRAY THAT IT WILL BLESS YOU TOO DEAR READER, MAYBE FOR THE SECOND TIME!

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
PSALM 1:1-2 (NASB)

In yesterday’s devotional The Company We Keep we looked at the temptation of following bad company and how a believer may drift from God by degrees until they are truly backslidden. But the psalm begins by pointing out the blessedness (happiness) of the believer who does not follow the temptations of this world; that is the believer standing firmly on Christ their Rock will withstand the waves that buffet them each day. Our question today is what holds the believer against such waves of temptation from sinful men?

The source of the believer’s strength is his delight in the Word of God; which by meditating on it day and night regularly will sustain him or her. Rather than looking on the pleasures of sinful company the eyes and heart of the believer should be fixed upon God’s Word. I read a good illustration in another devotion by Sherry Yarger that sin is like pebbles in a bucket of water; the more pebbles/sin that go in there is less water/Godliness in the bucket. But if we reverse the order: sin being the water and God’s Word being the pebbles…we see the positive effect of meditating often on His Word – it leaves little space in our bucket for sin.

Dear reader, are you tempted today? If so, open your Bible and seek Him. Fill your mind and heart with the Holy Word of God. My granny used to say “the Deil maks work fir idle hands!” meaning if we are not busy about God’s Word (and work) we are sitting ducks for Satan. Dear friend keep yourself busy today with God!

Alan Kearns is a Christian father and grandfather from Scotland. He was raised in the mining villages of Fife and came to know Jesus as his Lord and Savior in 1984. A major influence that leads Alan to Jesus was his Christian mum, grandparents and an aunt. Alan writes regular devotionals in his blog Devotional Treasures

https://devotionaltreasure.wordpress.com/

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