Today’s Devotional Is Written By A Ms Big Stuff In My Book, Growing In Grace and Faith…
Big Stuff…….
Psalm 83:18 (New Living Translation)
18 Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.
Today’s message in the music comes from Jean Knight’s “Mr Big Stuff”. The song is about a man trying to impress a woman with his big fancy this and his big fancy that. She lets him know that he will never ever get her love based off of those things. One verse in the song says…….I'd rather give my love to a poor guy that has a love that's true (oh yeah),Than to be fooled around and get hurt by you, Cause when I give my love, I want love in return (oh yeah), Now I know this is a lesson Mr. Big Stuff you haven't learned.
So many times in our spiritual lives we make this same mistake in a two part series. First, we try to show the world how much God we have, not by our lifestyle, but by the number of Jesus loves me bumper stickers on our car. Our million Jesus on or off the cross pendants we wear. The covered by His blood t-shirts and the three scriptures we quote for every situation because we’ve taken the time to memorize them.
Secondly, we mess up by trying to impress God with everything but the right thing. Our lives, our heart, our soul. We praise Him when we feel like, show up when its not going to interfere with plans already in motion, and say the same three prayers to Him because we’ve taken the time to memorize them. God is not impressed or moved by the number of houses we own, the size of our car or bank account………if we are not using them to uplift His kingdom. Like the song says, God would rather love a poor man who will serve Him wholeheartedly than a rich man who will betray or hurt him.
Today, as we begin another work week, let us become the little man so that God can be Mr Big Stuff in our lives. Let us die to ourselves, so that we may live big in Him.
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