Personal Devotions: Daily Realizations And Reminders

Daily Realizations and Reminders By Brandon Collins God made me. He did not speak me into existence (“Let there be man.”) but was intimately involved in every process of my physical and spiritual construction. Every physical attribute, every part of my character, every part of me has been carefully and purposefully entrusted to me. God and Sin God is completely and infinitely holy. He is the measure of morality and the standard of right and wrong. My sin infinitely offends His holiness. Sin is the opposite of God and He hates it by nature, not by choice. 1Jo 1:5 And this is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. When I sin, my sin is against Him. Sin is doubting that God is who He says He is. “The way of the transgressor is hard.” Repentance is never easy. The consequences for sin are never easy. Sin is the one thing that can completely disrupt my relationship with God. God loves me and skillfully orders my ways for His glory and my good. He has promised to always have my best interest in mind. He not only wants me to live eternal life after my death, He wants me to have “life and life more abundantly” here on earth. That life comes as I grow to love and trust Him and consistently take Him at His word. God’s Word is the only trustworthy account of life. God is truth and His Word is truth. God cannot lie. Any emotions I have about life or circumstances must first be interpreted through His ultimate truth. Any lie from Satan about sin or God must be combated using His ultimate truth. God is always with me, closer to me than my thoughts. He is inside all of my contemplations, all of my internal struggles, all of my secret ponderings. Thus, every secret thought is proclaimed openly for Him to hear. He wants an intimate part in every detail of my life. This is accomplished as I acknowledge His presence, bring my thoughts actively before Him, and allow His Spirit to direct my thoughts through scripture and scriptural truths that I am actively studying and memorizing throughout the week. When my direct line to heaven has been broken and God seems distant, sin is always the issue. Always, always, always- sin is the problem. Isa 59:1-2 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; (2) but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.