May 10, 2024 – What Are You Creating?

What Are You Creating?
May 10, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 11:29-31
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise. Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

    The Frankenstein Monster was a scary-looking creation. However, as the story goes, he was not really a monster at all. He was the creation of a mad scientist named Dr. Frankenstein, who was conducting experiments on how to create and sustain life. The creature he constructed was a combination of many different parts he had put together.

    Who can forget the moment in the film when the switch is thrown, the creation begins to move, and he says, “He’s alive, he’s alive”? The creation then took on the name of the creator, as people all began to call him Frankenstein.

    That’s a fictional story. However, did you know that you are also influencing people’s lives every day? In our verses today, it says, “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.” What you do and how you live your life as a Christian are part of the fruit that others see. It’s what will cause others to either desire or reject what you have in Christ. Your kindness and love will be like a tree of life to them. Your testimony for the Lord will bear fruit in the lives of those around you. When people see the joy of your salvation and realize Jesus died for them as well, they may accept Him and have a new life in Christ, just as you do.

    Now I would be careful with this next idea; you might startle a person. Nevertheless, when they accept Christ, you could express it with the same enthusiasm as Dr. Frankenstein did in the movie. You could exclaim, “He’s alive, he’s alive!” What a joy to know you can play a part in giving someone else real, eternal life.
     

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

    Today, as we go about our day, it might be interesting to think, “I am becoming a part of someone else’s life right now.” What I say, where I go, and how I look all matter in the life of another. Therefore, to be at my best, I want to model Christ. Just as the creation of Dr. Frankenstein did, we too have taken on the name of our creator: Christian. This means to be “Christlike.”

 

What are you creating today for the world to see?

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and todays Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: May 10, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    1 Chronicles 7-9
   Proverbs 11:29-31

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
   2 Samuel 16-18
   John 1:1-34