Today’s Devotional Written By The New Mrs. Shane Dixon: Tracy Dixon
Whose Report Will You Believe?
1 John 3:1 (New Living Translation)
1 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.
Today's message in the music comes from Lyfe Jennings song "Statistics". The verses of the song school women about the probability of finding a good man. He then breaks the facts into percentages and categories, and gives a list of rules to expose the ninety percent that is bad, and to hold onto the ten percent that is good.
As I listened to this song over and over again, I began to think of all the statistics I've heard in my life. If we listen to, and believe, the statistics of the media, all of our young girls will be pregnant before they graduate high school. Young men will be locked up, in a gang or dead before the age twenty-one. Married couples will divorce and the list goes on. If we listen to, and believe, the statistics of family and friends, some of us won't ever become anything. Some of us will turn out to be "JUST LIKE" our mother or father. Some of us would only be good enough to lay on our backs, others would be too stupid to do anything at all. There are even some of us who have been told, we should just jump off a bridge and die.
The other day as I was listening to the radio, the DJ asked all of his callers if they had been polled about the progress of the White House. Every single caller said No. The DJ then asked, "so who are the polls on TV reflecting"? If we are not careful, we will hear statistics, believe them and then miss our destiny. But my God, what does the Word have to say about all of this. My Bible says He knew me before I was even in my mother’s womb. My Bible says I'm the head and NOT the tail. My Bible says that if I am reborn in Christ, I AM a new creation, the old is gone and the new is here. My Bible says that I am more than a conqueror and that no weapon formed against me shall prosper.
Today as you look at all the statistics against you, ask yourself "whose report are you gonna believe"? You have to get around people that will speak life into, no matter what it looks like. Who will breathe scripture into you, and not quote statistics. I know many men and women who defy the odds every single day. So today throw out what/who the world says you are, will be, or should be, and stand on what and who God says you are!!!!
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