Be Still and Know Daily Bible Devotion

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  • Bring some Spirit-filled peace into your hectic schedule every weekday morning with this new Daily Devotional.
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  • November 8th - Psalm 37:1-3

    November 8th - Psalm 37:1-3
    Nov 8 2024
    Psalm 37:1-3 Don’t worry about the wicked or envy those who do wrong. For like grass, they soon fade away. Like spring flowers, they soon wither. Trust in the LORD and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper. Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires. I have worn glasses since I was a little boy. Without them life is just a blurry jumble of images and makes little sense. I am so grateful for the skill of opticians over the years who have ensured that I can see clearly. In this psalm, David encourages us to see our lives from God’s clear perspective – not from our blurry, short-term human point of view but with the sharp clarity of eternity. David was surrounded by people who were committed to making life difficult for him. In his early years he lived with the explosive and often violent temper of King Saul. And then as king he faced the challenge of not only a constant supply of military opponents but also many of his fellow countrymen who were eager to trip him up and overthrow him. It need be no surprise that so many of his psalms reflect on wickedness. This was no theoretical difficulty. He knew the names and addresses of many wicked people! He concluded that, at the end of the day, you don’t need to worry about wicked people. Like grass and spring flowers they are here one moment and then gone the next! From a human perspective, they are massively significant and should be a matter of overwhelming concern. But when we see things from God’s point of view we see that what matters most are his blessings, which last for ever. I still remember the first time I started to wear glasses. I was about seven years old. I couldn’t believe that they could make so much difference to my life. It is just the same when we start to share our lives with God in prayer and deliberately seek to see life from his perspective. Question How do your prayers change the way that you look at other people? Prayer Thank you Lord for the way in which you help me to see life. Help me to see with your eyes and to take increasing delight in you. Amen
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    3 mins
  • November 7th - Psalm 36:5-7

    November 7th - Psalm 36:5-7
    Nov 7 2024
    Psalm 36:5-7 Your unfailing love, O LORD, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike, O LORD. How precious is your unfailing love, O God! Do you remember the first time you heard someone tell you that they loved you? Perhaps it was your parents or a friend or a partner. It’s an inexpressibly wonderful experience. It changes everything. You are special, and the whole world looks different. In his psalms, David says many wonderful things about God but most incredible of all is that God, the Creator of the universe, actually loves us. It’s always precious when you see a child and their parent expressing love for one another and the expression “I love you to the moon and back” is often heard. Here, thousands of years ago, David was looking for similar language to express the unfailing love of God and concluded that his love is as vast as the heavens, and his faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds. He was pushing at the limits of language to express how amazing and complete God’s love for us is. These majestic words are set within a psalm in which David was reflecting on how wicked people can be. They have no fear of God. They are arrogant and their words are wicked and deceitful, and they spend their time plotting evil. He then moved directly from these reflections to describe the perfect love of God. I love that! It would be easy to move from reflecting on the terrible evil of the world to a tirade of anger against human wickedness, but no! As he examined the awful state of the world he used it as a springboard for worship. I suggest that you might like to listen to today’s news and do exactly the same! Question What does the love of God mean to you? Prayer Creator God, thank you for your perfect love for me. Help me to open my life to your love today, and then to pass it on. Amen
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    3 mins
  • November 6th - Psalm 35:17-18

    November 6th - Psalm 35:17-18
    Nov 6 2024
    Psalm 35:17-18 How long, O Lord, will you look on and do nothing? Rescue me from their fierce attacks. Protect my life from these lions! Then I will thank you in front of the great assembly. I will praise you before all the people. Have you ever felt that the Lord has completely forgotten about you? Perhaps you have seen God blessing all the people around you, and you are wondering when it’s going to be your turn. If you’ve ever had those thoughts then you will understand where David was coming from. He had a succession of crushing experiences and was desperate for God to step in and sort things out. Waiting is never easy, but when things are going so painfully badly it is much, much worse. Time and again in this psalm, David cried out to God to fix the situation. But what impresses me is that as he waited for God he didn’t lose confidence that God would, at some point, step in and answer his prayer. He was sure that he would be praising God for his deliverance before long. Samuel Becket’s famous and despairing play ‘Waiting for Godot’ introduces us to Vladimir and Estragon as they wait for Godot. They wait and they wait, and he never turns up. It’s all hopeless. That’s not our situation. At times we do have to wait, and it’s hard and discouraging as it’s not what we would choose. But God hasn’t given up on us and we can be sure that he will respond to our prayers and answer us. For that reason, like David, we can continue to have confidence in God and trust him with our future. Waiting feels like a complete waste of time when it’s happening but the truth is that if God always answered us immediately we would never need to develop a relationship with him. As we wait on him, with the confidence of knowing that he will certainly respond to our prayers, our relationship with him becomes stronger and more robust. Question What have you learned in the times when you have had to wait on God? Prayer Thank you Lord that, just like David, we can wait on you with confidence, knowing that you do hear us and will answer. Amen
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    3 mins

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