ESOCS Devotional 19 September 2024 – God First
MEMORY VERSE: “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.”
Luke 12:32 KJV
TEXT: LUKE 12:32-40
“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
35 “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; 36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them. 38 And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would [a]have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 40 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
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The work of the Kingdom of God must always be our first priority. If possessions are a distraction, we must get rid of them in order to invest in God’s kingdom.
Jesus could turn up at any time for a surprise inspection! What will He find when He checks on my life?
This is not supposed to fill us with dread. If Jesus checks in with me today and finds I am serving His purposes, then, He will reward me – perhaps serving my needs
This is a mystery of the Kingdom. We work hard to serve the Lord; but along the way we find such fellowship with Him that He is blessing us. The task we thought we had to do becomes joy.
- What will Jesus find you doing at His return?
- Lord you always turn my expectations over. Help me to seek your purposes and to serve your Kingdom. Amen.
Further Reading: Joel 2:1-11; Zechariah 7:8-14; 1 Corinthians 6:12- 20
ESOCS Devotional 19 September 2024
