New Family Devotions Blog

I decided a couple of weeks ago to begin a new blog. The intention of this new blog is to help Fathers lead their families in nightly devotions. These devotions can also be used by anyone at anytime. I am trying to post a devotion everyday. These devotions are fairly simple and easy. These devotions are the actual ones we are doing at night as a family. Enjoy! I pray that they will encourage you to gather your family together every night to seek the Lord! Scott 

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Meditating On Scripture

Psalms 119:97-100 "How I love Your instruction! It is my meditation all day long. Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me. I have more insight than all my teachers because Your decrees are my meditation. I understand more than the elders because I obey Your precepts."

How would you like to be wiser than those whom dislike you; to have more insight than all of those who teach you, and have a greater understanding than the elders of your church? All of this is possible if you will simply obey and meditate upon scripture all day long.

Wisdom is moral goodness in character, thought and actions. Understanding is the ability to separate and discern ideas. Insight is intelligence. So, through meditating on scripture alone, you and I can have the ability to separate and discern ideas, understand those ideas, and have those ideas become such a part of us that they change our character to the degree that we become morally good and wise.

How many other things do you meditate upon during the day? Do those things give you insight and understanding to the degree that you surpass all those around you in wisdom?

Where Do You Go For Comfort?

"This is my comfort in my affliction, for Your word has given me life." Psalm 119:50

Affliction can be a thousand different things. All that Job experienced was affliction. The Israelites were afflicted for four-hundred years under the hands of the Egyptians. The book of Hebrews tells us in chapter eleven that all of the Old Testament heros were afflicted because of their faith. And Paul considered all of his trials and troubles to be "light afflictions." But during these afflictions that we are all sure to face; where are we to go for comfort?

The Bible tells us that the place where we are to go during our afflictions is to itself. We are to run to it's promises. We are run to it's truth. We are to run to it's examples. We are to run to it's Author. And we are to run to it's Beginner, it's Fulfiller, and it's Pointer; to the incarnate Word of Life, Jesus Christ!

Think for a moment where we go though for comfort. Food? Distraction? Entertainment? Exercise? The list could go on and on couldn't it? We find ourselves in affliction and we run to a million of different sources which will never give us true comfort and life.

The Psalmist says tells us that God's word is his comfort during affliction, and it should be ours as well. God's purpose for allowing each affliction is so that we will become more and more complete (James 1:2-4). And we find our comfort during this chiseling process by clinging to the "word that has given me life."