Read the Bible in a Year (06JUL19)

DAILY REMINDER – Today, July 6’s Bible reading is Psalms 115-118. 

NEXT DAY REMINDER – Tomorrow, July 7’s Bible reading is Psalms 119:1-88. May God bless you with the reading of His WORD.

 

PSALMS MOMENT – (06JUL19) “But their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands” (Psalm 115:4). The psalmist wrote that the nations worshiped useless idols that could not see, hear, touch, nor speak. The ones who worshiped them were just like their idols because they were useless to God. Although many Christians may not worship idols, with the exception of the Catholics, in the traditional sense of how the heathen nations did, they are no less worshiping many foreign gods. Their gods include things such as: money, sex, music, sports, entertainment, leaders in both the political and religious sector, fashion, cars, houses, television, jobs, and so much more. Anything that we place before God becomes an idol. These things cannot save anyone. Only the Lord can save us.

There are things that will soon come to the earth that will test where our loyalties lie. Do we believe that God is the One who provides all of our needs, or will we show Him that we have trusted in a foreign god? If we are to learn anything from Israel’s history, it should be that God will never share Himself with a foreign god. We are to either choose Him, or follow the enemy. No one can serve two masters. “But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD" (Joshua 24:15). Something to ponder….

QUESTION OF THE DAY - (06JUL19) Have you ever felt that you would not make it through a troublesome situation? Were you at your wits’ end? The psalmist had gone through many hardships, but the Lord always carried him through. The psalmist wrote, “I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the Lord has done” (Psalm 118:17). Sometimes, we have to speak LIFE into our own situation. We have to encourage ourselves when there is no encouragement to be found. This is not a name it, claim it ideology, but this is having faith that the Lord will not leave us to falter at the hands of the enemy. It is not always easy to speak life into what seems like a dead situation. But we must believe that what may seem impossible for us, is not impossible for the Lord. The Bible says, “Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible’ " (Matthew 19:26). Something to ponder….