Michael Harrison's e-devotion

  There are so many things that have to get done every day, but they don’t. If you are like me, I get discouraged when my list isn’t completed.  But what is it that keeps us going?  There ought to be some things that help us keep on track, take care of our thoughts and feelings, and push us to keep on. In a conversation with a few friends we shared some of the things that keep people from moving on and enjoying life.  Typically it isn’t the normal hang up and struggles.  Typically it is what is behind those struggles. So, I will ask this question: who determines your value?  Is it what you do?  Is it what you have?  Is it where you live or what is in the bank or how you look?  All of those things aren’t what should determine our value. God determines our value.  Or as a current Christian song says. Cory Asbury in “The Father’s House” … Sometimes on this journey, I get lost in my mistakes What looks to me like weakness is a canvas for You...

Take a few minutes to look at a word.  You can choose any word that would like, but I choose the word “worthy”.  That is because of what it means. Something that has worth is important.  It has value.  It might have worth based on what it is or based upon what others think about it. Take some time to visit this word with me. Psalm 18:3  NLT I called on the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and he saved me from my enemies. First, our God is worthy.  He is more valuable than anything else. Proverbs 12:4  NLT A worthy wife is a crown for her husband, but a disgraceful woman is like cancer in his bones. Second, a great wife, or spouse, is a gift, a valuable gift, to us. Matthew 10:11  NLT “Whenever you enter a city or village, search for a worthy person and stay in his home until you leave town. Third, finding someone who serves you or serves with you is of huge value is worthy. Ephesians 4:1  NLT Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg yo...

Colossians 3:11     NLT In this new life, it doesn’t   matter   if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free.   Christ   is all that   matters, and he lives in all of us. That is a powerful verse.    Far too many people look at the people around them, the people they encounter and judge them at first sight.    Be honest.    You’ve done that, and I have too.    I dare say that we are wrong a lot when we chose to judge in ways that don’t come from God nor do they honor Him. One of the reasons that our thinking is flawed is that we put too much weight on things that don’t matter.    When someone is attractive, they are considered more worthy.    When someone comes from a wealthy or well-known family, they seem more important or to have more value.  How ever we measure, if Christ is not the mean and the mark, we are headed i...