Today’s Devotion
Topic: Where Will You Be?
Text: Luke 2: 43, 46
43 After the Feast was over, while His parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. 46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Amen
Where your treasure is, there your heart also is, says the Holy Book. The places we love being at, the people we love hanging out with and the things we love talking about, clearly tell where our interest and allegiance in life lie. It is and has always been a matter of choice.
If your family has been asking your whereabouts for three days, where do you think will be the most likely places to come to their minds? The beach, a friend’s house, a popular hide out, police custody, nightclub, a hotel or distant lands? For others, the search will begin either from the house of the Lord or with calls to fellow Christian workers to ascertain whether you have embarked on a personal retreat.
You see, the first place that comes to people’s mind to inquire from, just when they begin to search for you, says a lot about who you are and what interest you have harbored through life all these years.
In Psalm 1:1-2, we learn that “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night”.
Jesus Christ, though a 12 year old at the time, became clearly surprised that His parents could not think of looking for Him in the temple of God first, before any other place. He was definitely not lost. He was either to be with them (His Parents) or in His heavenly Father’s house. “Why were you searching for me?” He asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” (Luke 2: 49).
What about you Beloved? Today is another wonderful day the Lord has gifted you to see. Where would you rather be? King David says ” I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord.”(Psalm 122: 1). For as the deer pants for streams of water, so (his) soul longs after his God (Psalm 42: 1b).
In the presence of God there’s the fullness of joy, and at His right hand are pleasures ever more (Psalm 16: 11). Rise up, shake of the laziness and fatigue, start preparing for church. Where there will be no organised church service due to covid restrictions, do not worry. Just gather the family around and spend quality time in the presence of the Lord. It is surely the best place to be today, IN HIS PRESENCE.
AND WHEN YOU HAVE ASSEMBLED, please expect the Lord Jesus to show up. He already promised that where two or more shall gather in His name, there He is, in their mist. (Matthew 18: 20). He shows up, and it is only to do good.
Just see “how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him” (Acts 10: 38).
Begin to pray. Pray into the service that the glory of the Lord fills His temple and our hearts; an encounter that should change our lives forever. Where would you rather be this morning? See you in His Presence. And endeavour to make your dwelling there, forever. https://youtu.be/nVpYSH7l9LQ
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