Devotional for friends // Devocional para as amigas

  “He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD. (Psalm 112:7)   Bad news. We are always afraid of them.  Who is this person that the psalmist is talking about? Who does not fear bad news? And why do we fear them? The psalmist is talking about the man who fears the LORD (v.1), and great blessings follow this man. The important part of this psalm is not to lose the thread of the thought. Even those people who do everything right once in a while get some bad news.   When a person fears the right one, the other things don’t need to be feared. But we fear them anyway.  We say we fear the LORD, but do we really know what we really fear? Are we really faithful to God? I know the answer to that one: No. We are not really faithful to God. All sinned and fall short to the glory of God (Romans 3:23). So, we fall short. Every day. That may be true, however, it doesn’t give us an excuse to not care about it. We must try harder every day. And every d...

  Every year we go to the doctor to do a check-up. Something probably will come up in needs to fix. We, humans, are known to not take good care of our bodies. Of course, there are people who are really worried about their well-being and health and such and such.  Can we say the same about our spiritual life? How regularly are we doing check-ups to see if we are good before God? Certainly with 100% sure that we are not doing good, especially if we take a long time to do it. The good news is that it doesn’t cost us any money to have the check-up done. We can and should do it on a daily basis. The Bible says that the devil is like a hungry lion who is roaring looking for some prey to get. ( Be alert and of sober mind .  Your enemy the devil prowls around  like a roaring lion  looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8)   Spiritual check-ups also don’t require a doctor or a pastor to verify if we are good. We are the ones responsible for doing that. We are not ...