Daily Devotional: Wednesday, Sept 9

Speaker: Paul Diaz

Theme: Myth: God Won't Give You More Than You Can Handle

Weekend Music links on iTunes:  Happy Day by Tim Hughes; Not to Us by Chris Tomlin; Came to my Rescue by Hillsong United; You'll Come by Hillsong United; Shine Your Light On Us by Robbie Seay Band.
 

Read: Matthew 5:1-12 

Think: When I started dating my husband we went to visit a friend and decided to go out for lunch. My now husband mentioned about a place he had heard of and our friend liked it so we went there. I was looking forward to a nice relaxing lunch and good company, what I got was a lot of tables around a stage and a band that played while you ate. Now at that time I had told my husband I liked all kinds of music but jazz, sadly he had forgotten. We spent the next three hours in a room with a jazz band playing at me while I tried to eat my food. What I had hoped would be a blessing and had been intended as one turned out to be a few hours biting my tongue and practicing my tolerance. For my now husband it had been seen as a nice outing for us both but our views were very different at that time. Thankfully now I can look back on it and laugh though I won't be volunteering to do it again.

Often our view of blessings is very different from God's. He sees the rewards and end result while we are in the middle of it and trying to see a way out. While God sees situations in our lives as opportunities we see them as burdens and troubles.

Do: Think back on a situation in your past that at the time was overwhelming, difficult or confusing. Take a moment to find God's blessing in that time and see how it enabled you to grow closer to Him or perhaps to learn something any easier route, or short-cut as Pastor Paul put it, may not have shown you.

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