THANKFUL

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Lord, everything goes better with You. When You are involved in our affairs, You make the rough way smoother. However, if things seem to be shaky for a while, You assure us to just hang tough, for You are at work to make the situation better and the people involved stronger in faith. Nearly everyone who came around You were better people when they left. The only ones You couldn’t help were the prideful, religious elites. Their arrogance and condescension made the average person feel inadequate, and at worst, useless. Lord, I wonder, did You put them in their place by quoting a Scripture they very well knew, but were clueless it described them? Proverbs 3:34, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” I guess in their spiritual blindness, that truth just flew over their head. How frightful it must be to have God opposing you. Oh, Lord, keep me from ever becoming a “religious elite!”

Lord, our desire is to be better Christ-followers after spending time with You. May our love for others grow, may our passion for bringing the lost, hurting, and hopefully even the former religious elites, to You. Help us commit to this goal—we want to be like You in that people are better after they have been around us.  Let the time we spend with You to rub off on others. And may we all live by this simple but life-changing truth: everything goes better when You are involved, Jesus. Amen!