Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Tuesday's Devotion: In Praise of Scripture

Isaiah 40:8 “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”

I looked for some documents on my computer yesterday but couldn’t find them.  How can my computer lose whole files?, I thought.  I believe most people who’ve worked with computers have lost documents, files or other information.  We used to have a saying when it came to preventing this from happening: “Jesus saves; so should you.”  I gave up looking for my files and turned to other sources for my research efforts.  Of course later, when tooling around my computer directory I came across the folder with the “lost” information.  It had been there all the time but I didn’t know where to look for it.  I’ve come across this scripture from Isaiah several times this past week.  It’s a comfort to me.  I know exactly where to look for God’s Word and I have confidence that no matter how long ago it was first put down in written form and no matter to whom it was addressed, God’s Word has a personal message for me every day and in every situation. 

Thank you God, for your Holy Scriptures; for their poetry, for their comfort, for their admonitions and for their guidance.  May your Living Word dwell within us and may we share it with others.  In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

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