Daily Devotionals
Daily Devotional: Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!!
Num 6:24-26
The Lord bless you, and keep you; The Lord make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance on you, And give you peace.'
As we enter into 2025, we need the Lord, we need his blessings, and we need his peace in our lives (in our families, our churches, our communities, our country, and in our world). We can pray for all of these but the only peace we can personally do something about is our inner peace. Paul says that this comes when we do not worry about anything, but we pray about everything. Jesus says that this only happens when we trust God.
When we trust him, we try to imitate him.
When we trust him, we try to please him by obeying him.
When we trust him, we pray to him.
When we trust him, we rely on him and his grace.
Life is not about “me”. Life is about honoring God and bringing glory to Jesus as the Lord of lords and the King of kings. This will only happen when we allow his Spirit to live in us and control us (our attitudes, our thoughts, our aspirations, and our behavior).
To use the words of the Apostle Paul, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
O Lord God, Thank you for 2024. I ask your blessings of peace and goodwill on those who read these words. Give each of us a sense of urgency to trust you more and to talk with you more frequently in 2025 than we have in previous years. With great joy I pray to you in the name of my Savior, Jesus my Lord. Robert
