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Daily Devotional: Thursday, Sept 24
 Speaker: Paul Diaz Theme: Unforgiveness - a BIG bag! Weekend Music links on iTunes: Your Grace Is Enough by Chris Tomlin; Sing to the King by Passion Worship Band; Glory by Hillsong United; Mighty to Save by Hillsong. Read: Colossians 3:2, Philippians 4:5-9 Think: As I listened to Pastor Paul's message last weekend, the section on ‘What do bitter people look like?" brought to mind everyone I see on the covers of magazines at the grocery store.A culture has been built for us that celebrates or at least is very focused on many of the attributes of bitterness, anger and unforgiveness that Pastor Paul warned us about. It's called reality television, competition shows and partisan politics. The Real World, Big Brother, Survivor and so many more now give us opportunity to weekly get "involved" in anger, criticalness, celebrating misfortune, writing off groups of people and discontent. I know I have to be careful as this "involvement" now becomes part of my work place conversation, my trips to the grocery store and too many idle moments. "That girl can't sing at all" I hear myself saying. "Who would ever cook that? That looks disgusting" Rush hates Anderson who hates Bill who hates Chris and they spend an awful lot of time screaming about it. Col 3:2 says, "Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth". It is so easy to be drawn into the strife and anger and even feel justified in it. Philippians 4: 5-9 tells us about being anxious for nothing, letting our gentleness be known, meditating on truth and nobility. I have a choice to adopt this culture of anger or to seek the peace that Jesus modeled for me and offers. Do: Write down the television shows you watch for a week. Go back and grade them one thru five. One being least peaceful and noble, five being the most peaceful and noble. Pray: Father, help me be aware of what I allow into my mind, my heart, my house and my family. Let it honor you. Amen. The eDevotional is written each week by a team of volunteers from Timberlake Church. |
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