Devotional Guide -- March 22

Friday, March 22, 2019
The Holy Bible: 

God Speaks to Man

“Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all he has promised; not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he uttered by Moses his servant.” I Kings 8:56  

Commenting on the words of someone recently elected to office, another elected official said, “There’s a difference in campaign rhetoric and what the candidate knows he can do once he gets into office.” I was stunned. Did he really mean to say that a person can make whatever promise he wants in the expediency of getting elected, knowing full-well that he can never live up to his promises? We can be grateful that is not the way God operates!

The Lord has given us rest – rest – in knowing that not one word of what he has promised will be forgotten. Every word of what he has promised will be done. Not one promise is insignificant. Do we realize just what that means? “I will never leave you or forsake you.” “Lo, I am with you always.” He “will supply all our needs according to his riches in glory.” We can count on God to do exactly what he has promised!

Our lives will certainly be easier and less stressful if we not only trust the Lord’s word but know it well enough to apply it to whatever we are facing at the moment. He never promised that we would be rich in things. He never promised we would be free from troubles. He has promised to be our God when we don’t have things and when we are in trouble!

Prayer: Father, thank you that you are steadfast and absolutely dependable! Amen.

“I am the resurrection and the life.” John 11:25
Lenten Devotional Guide
prepared for Homosassa United Methodist Church, Spring 2009
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Director