THE WORD TRANSFORMING THE WORLD – DEVOTIONAL
Howdy Friends! “What’s the world coming to?” I said to Grandpop. “I can sure remember you saying that when I was just a boy.”
I’d taken the weekend off, knowing Grandpop was short handed for hay baling so I’d made the trip. Funny how I felt so much older after the first day baling. Muscles hurt I’d forgotten were even there. Cool on the porch though, after a long hot day. “World sure looks different from this view.” I whispered to myself.
“Been watchin’ this ol’ world fer more years than a fella should be allowed ta have.” Grandpop said. “Funny thing about this world, we can choose how we go about it.”
“Go about it?” I wondered.
“Ya see, we can let the world run us, or we can swim upstream as they say.” He sipped his coffee. “It’s easy ta go with the flow, even if when it’s flowin’ the wrong direction. That’s where a lot of folks get it upside down.”
“Upside down?”
Grandpop didn’t bother to explain upside down. “When a body looks at a thing,” he said, “knowin’ it’s against what should be, but decides it’s more fun, or easier ta just roll with it, or worse gets on board with it and helps promote it, well Son, there’s only one way for it ta go, and that’s downhill.”
He gave me a “lecturing” look. “And you know what happens when a bad thing gets ta rollin’ downhill. It picks up speed.”
I had to chuckle, “Like that hay wagon that lost a pin and went rolling downhill today.”
“Just like that!”
“I haven’t run that fast, that long in years!” I let go a good laugh. “Thank God there was a rock I could grab and slam under the wheel and stop that runaway!”
“That’s the deal, Son. The world needs more of us grabbin’ onto the rock of the Lord’s word.” He took another sip of coffee. “Yep, God, His word, is the rock that can keep this ol’ world from slidin’ on down the hill of no return.” He slapped the arm of his chair, tossed me a wink, “Here’s hopin’ more folks find that rock.”
~ Gitty Up, Dutch.
Bible Verse – Romans 10:14 – “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?”
Bible Verse – 1 Peter 4:10 – “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.”
Bible Verse – James 2:17 – “In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”
Bible Verse – James 1:22 -“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”
Bible Verse – Hebrews 10:24 – “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.”
Bible Verse – Galatians 6:9 – “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
Bible Verse – Galatians 6:5 – “For each one should carry their own load.”
Bible Verse – Proverbs 12:15 – “The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.”
Bible Verse – Matthew 7:16 – “By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?”
Bible Verse – Mark 16:15 – “He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.’”
Bible Verse – 1 Corinthians 1:10 -“I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you.”
Bible Verse – Romans 12:4-5 – “For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.”
Bible Verse – Titus 3:8 -“This is a trust worthy saying, and I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good.”
Bible Verse – Luke 6:38 – “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Bible Verse – Galatians 5:13 – “You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.”
Bible Verse – Colossians 3:23 – “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”
