monday
AUGUST 8
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One day in Kenya worshipers went to their worship place to find their god missing. Bewildered, they went to the police to file a report. The police were at a loss for words, wondering about a god that couldn’t even help himself. How wonderful that our heavenly Father will always be there whenever we come to worship Him. He still reveals His power in modern times to prove His love and presence. “It is not by inherent power that year by year the earth yields its bounties and continues its march around the sun. The hand of the Infinite One is perpetually at work guiding this planet.
It is God’s power continually exercised that keeps the earth in position in its rotation. It is God who causes the sun to rise in the heavens. He opens the windows of heaven and gives rain. . . .
“It is by His power that vegetation is caused to flourish, that every leaf appears, every flower blooms, every fruit develops.”1
Many people today are distracted from the worship of the one true God like the Israelites who perished in the wilderness. “From Kadesh the children of Israel had turned back into the wilderness; and the period of their desert sojourn being ended, they came, ‘even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh.’ Numbers 20:1.
“Here Miriam died and was buried. From that scene of rejoicing on the shores of the Red Sea, when Israel went forth with song and dance to celebrate Jehovah’s triumph, to the wilderness grave which ended a lifelong wandering—such had been the fate of millions who with high hopes had come forth from Egypt. Sin had dashed from their lips the cup of blessing. . . .“ ‘For all this they sinned still, and believed not for His wondrous works. . . . When He slew them, then they sought Him: and they returned and inquired early after God. And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the high God their Redeemer.’ Psalm 78:32-35. Yet they did not turn to God with a sincere purpose. Though when afflicted by their enemies they sought help from Him who alone could deliver, yet ‘their heart was not right with Him, neither were they steadfast in His covenant.’ ”2
Today, God invites us all to come to Him and worship Him with the whole of our hearts.
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1. The Ministry of Healing, p. 416.
2. Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 410.
“It is by His power that vegetation is caused to flourish, that every leaf appears, every flower blooms, every fruit develops.”1
Many people today are distracted from the worship of the one true God like the Israelites who perished in the wilderness. “From Kadesh the children of Israel had turned back into the wilderness; and the period of their desert sojourn being ended, they came, ‘even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh.’ Numbers 20:1.
“Here Miriam died and was buried. From that scene of rejoicing on the shores of the Red Sea, when Israel went forth with song and dance to celebrate Jehovah’s triumph, to the wilderness grave which ended a lifelong wandering—such had been the fate of millions who with high hopes had come forth from Egypt. Sin had dashed from their lips the cup of blessing. . . .“ ‘For all this they sinned still, and believed not for His wondrous works. . . . When He slew them, then they sought Him: and they returned and inquired early after God. And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the high God their Redeemer.’ Psalm 78:32-35. Yet they did not turn to God with a sincere purpose. Though when afflicted by their enemies they sought help from Him who alone could deliver, yet ‘their heart was not right with Him, neither were they steadfast in His covenant.’ ”2
Today, God invites us all to come to Him and worship Him with the whole of our hearts.
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1. The Ministry of Healing, p. 416.
2. Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 410.
Written by Jared Bosire, Mombasa, Kenya
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