Daily Devotion from Ryan Marks book series: Thoughts

Thought 150

Believe what God promises

Read 1 Chronicles 17:16-27 (NIV)

      Have you ever struggled believing something that God told or revealed to you because it just doesn’t make any sense? I have. The only thing that I can tell you is that when you feel like giving up and not holding to that promise(s) anymore, is that you take a moment and cry out to God for help to stand firm and continue to fight the good fight to believe. When you want to give up because it isn’t normal or because it isn’t what is “in” or when you just don’t want to believe because it is hard to press on, guess what? God is still there.

       I know that some people are reading this book and thinking “this kid is only a fifteen or sixteen something, but how can he know all this stuff.” The truth is I know nothing. Without God, I am nothing. God is teaching me and has taught me things that are contained in these pages. The Holy Spirit personally teaches me, the Scriptures have showen me the TRUTH, the Father has continued to pour His affections on me, and the Son—Jesus Christ!— has saved me from all my sin by dying on that Cross for me. And I know that God wants to teach you as well: to guide you, to direct your steps, and to commune with you. I am a nobody that God chose to make a somebody. God wants to make you a somebody too. Talk to Him, and if He chooses to talk back…listen!

        I have failed my Lord so many times. I have doubted, sinned, lusted, despised, and disobeyed the words of my God. May He forgive you as he has forgiven me.