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Promises, Promises

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SONY DSCYou can trust God today. You can.

We all know God’s promises to us. He will never leave nor forsake us (Deuteronomy 31:6).

All things work for God for those that love God (Romans 8:28).

He will forgive us our sins (1 John 1:9).

He will be with us in the shadow of death (Psalm 23).

He wants good things for our future (Jeremiah 29:11).

We knows these things. We’ve heard these verses. We’ve heard sermons and bible studies on all these things that God has promised us. But, how do we know? How do we know that we can trust these things. How do we know?

Listen to what it says in Hebrew 6:17-18:

So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

God made a promise to us. And God is unable to lie. He cannot lie. It’s impossible. He is who He says that He is. His words are true. And we can believe them.

So today, you can trust these promises. You can believe them. You can know them. They are true.

You are not alone.

You are loved.

You are forgiven.

God will not leave you.

You will not walk through the valley alone.

God has promised you these things. And He cannot lie. Trust today. Let go of your fears and worries. Trust.

God will not leave you. He has promised that. And He is true to His word.

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Good Dirt

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Jesus often communicated with parables. These were stories that related the point He was trying to get across to common things that the people of the day would understand.

Jesus was followed mainly by the common people of His day. So, many of His parables talk about things they (and we) would understand. Family. Land. Word. Stuff that nearly every human deals with.

Today’s reading is one that I’m sure we’ve all heard many times, from Matthew 13: 3-9. Listen to what happens.

And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.”

In this parable, the farmer (God) throws out the seed (His Word) and some ground is receptive to it, and the seed gives fruit. And the rest of the ground, it’s either receptive at first and then dies away, or it is not all receptive.

Every time I read this story, the question goes through my mind. What kind of dirt will I be today?

Will I be good dirt? Or will I be the kind of dirt that rejects what God wants to do in my life today?

Today, God will reach out to you. It may be through this devotional. It may be through your own reading. It may be through the words of a co-worker or a family member. It may be through a song you hear on the radio.

God will reach out to you. He will fling His word into your life in some way today.

What type of dirt will you be?

Will you be good dirt that receptive to what God is trying to do?

Or will you be dirt that goes through the motion? Or will you be dirt that out-and-out rejects what God wants to say and wants to do.

God wants to speak to you today. He wants to give you His word.

What type of word will you be?

May we each be good dirt.

Don’t forget, you can click here to download Asbury’s mobile app and read these devotionals, as well as listen to my sermons on your smart phones.