Open Heaven 18 January 2019: [Friday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye – Divinely satisfied?
DIVINELY SATISFIED? – Friday January 18th 2019
Memorise: And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 1st Timothy 6:8
Read: 1st Timothy 6:6-10 (KJV)
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Bible in one year: Mark 7-8, Isaiah 15:1-16:11, Hymnal: Sing hymn 7
Message:-
Contrary to common belief, satisfaction in life is not a matter of how much you have. Our Lord Jesus Christ said in Luke 12:15:
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“….Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”
“The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth n sorrow with it.”
True blessings from the Lord have three characteristics: they bring riches in all ramifications; they are devoid of sorrow and are accompanied with contentment.
Irrespective of what a man has, if he is not content, he will restlessly pursue satisfaction throughout his life time. The Almighty God, in whose image we were created, is a great example to us on contentment. Genesis 1:31-2:2 says:
Open Heaven 18 January 2019: [Friday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye – Divinely satisfied?
“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.”
“My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
The secret behind God resting on the seventh day even though He still had more work to do is not far-fetched: God was content with His achievements. This is why the Bible says in 1st Timothy 6:6
“But godliness with contentment is great gain.”
This verse shows that one may be godly but not have contentment. Beloved, when we become obsessed with work because we want to acquire more wealth to the detriment of our worship of God and even to the point of harming our body system, then we have fallen into the snare of the devil described in 1st Timothy 6:9. Are you divinely satisfied?
Prayer Point
Father, please grant me the grace to live a life of godliness with contentment.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical Churches in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.
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