Category: Devotion of the Day

DON’T STOP AT A GRAVE!

And Rachel died…and Israel journeyed.
Genesis 35:19, 21

Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan.
Joshua 1:2

And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Matthew 14:12

Jacob buried his beloved Rachel – and journeyed on. When Moses died Joshua took charge and crossed over Jordan. John the Baptist died, and his disciples brought their grief to Jesus.

No matter how deep you loss, how impossible it seems to go on, life is too short to stop by any grave. We must proceed. Loved ones pass away, great leaders die, the prophet is beheaded. But God’s work goes on and we must go on. Those we have lost awhile would not have us settle at their graves. God would have us arise and cross Jordan.

Bring your loss to Jesus, but do not sit up with the past. For He said, “Let the dead bury their dead, but go thou…”

WE KNOW NOT…BUT THE SPIRIT

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.
Romans 8:26

“I can’t think or pray or feel as I ought. What shall I do?” You never will be able to do or be perfectly as you wish you might while you are in the flesh. You are a child of Adam, and the best falls far short. How often have we resolved, yielded, committed, dedicated ourselves, and then felt how poorly we had done it! No one ever prayed a prayer or preached a sermon that completely satisfied him. We are not to look in that direction for satisfaction.

Paul says in Romans 8 that we do not even know what to pray for as we ought, let alone how to pray, but the Spirit makes up our lack. God knows the intent of the heart, however poorly the lips express it.

If you can’t pray like you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean. And you have good help – the Advocate who is God’s Son and the Paraclete who is God’s spirit. They will take your feeblest prayer and make it perfect.