Devotionals and David

Prayer: Lord may you guide my every action today. I give you praise Lord for all your awesome wonders. You know every step of  my journey and I thank you for calling me to your service. Thank you for all  you do father God. In Jesus name. Amen

Verse of the Day: "But the LORD said to Samuel, 'Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.'" 1 Samuel 16:7(NIV)

Worship Song of the Day: Lord Most High by Don Harris and Gary Sadler

Blessings all. Well its the beginning of a new week and I haven't posted in a little while. Hope everyone had a great holiday. Mainly today I wanted to talk a little about what we talked about in church sunday and about the devotional my wife and I are doing right now.

Pastor David is currently preaching a sermon series on the life of David. David is one of the great heroes of the bible and one of my favorite due to his unimpressiveness. This weeks sermon was on David being chosen by God despite his brothers being far more impressive and higher in order than him. Isn't a good thing that God chooses us not based on our apperance or if we have it all together or not? Guys like David and Gideon mirror my unimpressiveness but God chose them anyway. David became the most famous King of Israel and it was from his lineage God would send his son to redeem mankind.

David of course had his faults and some of them very big faults but the bible says he was a man after God's own heart. The heart is central to our walk with Jesus as it is with our hearts we worship God and, it is to our heart that God speaks to us and through us. God looks far beyond the physical things of the world and looks at our heart. One of the main points of this blog being about worship is that worship is something that takes place in our heart. Our actions and words and songs can be a reflection of that worship but the act of worship takes place completely in your heart.

I am also quite excited about the devotional my wife and I have started. Its the Beth Moore devotional entitled Paul. Its about the life of Paul and God's call on him. Thus far its mainly about his childhood and his religious education. It is nice to get a better idea of how Paul may have lived as a child and developed into the Christian hating Pharisee and then into the greatest voice Christ would use to call the gentile unto him. I find that devotionals are the ways its easiest for me to study the word. Mainly because it gives me focus but also because you can dig a bit deeper than the surface of the words in the Bible and find out maybe some cultural significance for some of the things that are taking place.

Well thats all for today. Sort of short today but I just wanted to touch a bit about these things. I will be back tomorrow with more. Blessings to you and all praise to the great God of Wonders.

Your Brother in Christ,
Brian