Reading your Bible for Today September 11

September 11: Romans 8:26-28 

KJV Key Verse: Romans 8:28
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Devotion:
If you have got it into your head that you know exactly what you want or need in life, then I think you may well be in for a shock as you find out you are not correct! Many times we get obsessed with the idea we need something which we don’t have. We go all out to be able to achieve our new goal, only to find out when we reach it, there is more that we have not got! We are not fully competent to be able to understand what we need in our lives!

There are passages in the bible where we are told to never judge others (Luke 6:37 says “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:”) because we are not worthy to judge anyone. Well, when it comes down to judging according to God's standard, we are not even worthy of judging ourselves by ourselves! We have to remember we should not expect others to treat us any different to the way we treat them (if only people would realise that!)

Far too often we get caught up in our own feelings and our judgement becomes impaired – but God is a faithful and just God whose judgement is always true and righteous. If we are to want to be anything like Him in our ways, then we have to take lessons from Him in the way we should act. This is always going to be one of the things we will find hard to do!

No matter how bad we are at doing something, as long as we are willing to take lessons from someone, we will be able to learn more and eventually may turn out to be fairly good at it. Prayer is one thing we start out with in life where we just don't know what we are doing. If anyone thinks they do know everything about prayer, then they are assuming they know more than our teacher! Christ made sure we would have a teacher with us from the moment we are saved. Our personal tutor, The Holy Spirit, continues to abide with us, guiding and teaching us... so long as we are willing to listen!

Points to Ponder:
Which lessons do (or did) you like at school?

Do you listen faithfully when Christ teaches you?