This my favorite devotional book. I have been reading it now for over 7 years and God does something new and fresh each time I read a specific day.
Let me share from today's reading...
"I'm so grateful, Lord, that the Christian life is not a rigorous self-improvement course or a do-it-yourself kit... that it is not a call to prove myself by overcoming my own shortcomings and failures, in my own way, but my own resources. Thank You that, instead, You are at work in me and in my situation to break old patterns of thought and action, to create within me both the desire and the power to do Your gracious will... and to make me a joy to You in new ways.
Thank You, too for the Holy Spirit - the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength. I praise You that He is in me to enlighten me through Your Word, to flush away my anxieties and fears, my resentments and hostilities, my guilt and regrets, as water flushes away dirt and trash... to keep me filled with Himself and to flood my heart with Your love... to produce through me the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control... and to enable me to give thanks for all things as the hours and days and weeks pass. I rejoice that You are able to do far more than all I ask or think according to Your power that is at work within me - the same power that raised Jesus from the dead!
What a mighty God we serve!
