Mon.’s Devo - Lord, Lord

Read Luke 6:46-49 Our way to salvation is down an aisle, to pray a rote prayer, then be baptized and told to attend church. This is all fine IF that person really allows God to have their whole heart. If they do, they will become a new creature and desire to follow their new Lord. Jesus told his disciple the only way you can call me your master is if you obey me. Obedience is the fruit of salvation. That is why he went to so much trouble in the verses before to talk about the seed in their heart. If God’s seed is not firmly planted in their hearts they can not produce good fruit. If it is then their heart will be to obey their master. Then they will be like a man who built his house on the rock of Christ Jesus and when adversity and the storms of life come, they will stand firm. If the seed has not been firmly planted and brought forth roots to hold them, the storms of life will blow them right off their foundation (which is sand). The sad thing is that in the end, many will try to convince the Lord that they “walked an isle” or “prayed a prayer”, or did “good works” but he is going to tell them to depart from him because he never had a relationship with them and they never knew him or they would have done what he said. God is always talking - his Word never stops speaking, so there will be no excuse of not hearing it. We stop hearing God’s voice when we allow our ears to grow dull and eyes blinded. What we listen to and allow our eyes to watch does make a difference in our hearts. Just watching the news can allow fear and dread to rob us of the truth the Word says. We are on a fast pace toward some really dark times if our country doesn’t cry out for God but we have the light inside us. We should never be afraid of what mere men can do to us because God is on our side!!! Lord, you are our strong Commander of a very strong army of which we are privileged to be a part of. Arm us with your love and your Word and keep our eyes seeing and our ears hearing.