Today’s Devotion
Topic: What’s Your Excuse?
Text: Deuteronomy 30: 14
No, the message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart so that you can obey it. Amen
Often, people give a number of excuses for their actions and inactions. There are ‘ready-made’ excuses for not meeting deadlines, not showing up as promised, not meeting goals or standards etc. Interestingly, we have gone as far as even giving excuses in relation to us worshipping God.
Christians of today are always poised with excuses on why they haven’t been able to quit a particular sin, why they didn’t make it to church service, why they couldn’t have their quiet time, why they have defaulted in the payment of their tithes; the list goes on and on.
It isn’t because we do not know what is required of us, or that we have no access to the instructions of God. On the contrary, the availability of the Word of God today is unparalleled in the whole of history. We have several versions of the Bible on our mobile phones and other high-tech gadgets, we hear it preached daily on radio and television, several pastors ‘scream’ it out on pulpits around the globe and sometimes even in the open streets.
Just like Moses told the Israelites many years ago, “This command I am giving you today is not too difficult for you to understand, and it is not beyond your reach. It is not kept in heaven, so distant that you must ask, ‘Who will go up to heaven and bring it down so we can hear it and obey?’ It is not kept beyond the sea, so far away that you must ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to bring it to us so we can hear it and obey?’ No, the message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart so that you can obey it.” (Deut. 30:11-14)
And this Word from God has power in itself to produce righteous fruits in us; because His words “are spirit and life” (John 6:63). Moreover, it is God who “works in us, giving us the desire and the power to do what pleases Him.” (Phil. 2:13)
So you see, beloved, you do not have any excuse for not living a life that pleases your Maker; He has given you His Word and the desire and power to please Him. See you at church today; “Call them all together—men, women, children, and the foreigners living in your towns—so they may hear this Book of Instruction and learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the terms of these instructions.” (Deut. 31:12)
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