The God Who Changes Us

by Web Admin, 12 months ago

Ask God to make you less than you are—

Today's Devotional By:  Dr. David Jeremiah

Today's Devotional Scriptures:  1 Samuel 15:29 NLT

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Recommended Reading: 1 Samuel 15:22-29 - 22 So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,As in obeying the voice of the Lord?Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,And to heed than the fat of rams.23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,He also has rejected you from being king.”24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.” 26 But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.” 27 And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore. 28 So Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you. 

29The Preeminent One of Israel does not go back on His word or change His mind, for He is not a human being who changes His mind.”  - 1 Samuel 15:29

Almighty God never becomes more, less, or different than He is. That’s why He can change us and make us more and less and different than we are. Only the Unchanging One can change us!

Ask God to make you more than you are. Ask Him for more wisdom in your daily decisions, more graciousness in your everyday speech, more cheerfulness in your disposition.

Ask God to make you less than you are—less selfish, less upset, less worried, and less undisciplined. Ask Him to make you different than you are. Perhaps there’s one particular area in which you need more Christlikeness. “He who is the Glory of Israel” will not lie nor change His mind. But He will change your heart—and keep changing it from glory to glory until you get to Glory!

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change. - Peter Marshall

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