The Feed Mill

Today’s Bible Reading: Joshua 5-7

Today’s Devotional: Joshua 5:1-9

Hearing of the good and great things of the Lord does one of two things in the lives of an individual, it either strikes fear or humility. One responds with boasting of their ability in and of who they are and what they can accomplish, competing with the other. The later responds with humility, listening and obeying the words of the Lord. The later having a love for and trusting His Word, timing, and ways; Deuteronomy 30:1-6.

The one who obeys the Word of the Lord, trusting and loving it, the Grace and Peace of the Lord abounds in their life. The Lord sets them high in His hand to guard and protect. They are blessed and happy living and having the Lord’s peace in every place they go and dwell. The Lord provides, protects, and fellowships with that individual in and through whatever situation or circumstance they may find themselves in, Deuteronomy 28:1-14.

Paul in writing to the Philippian Believers, says that this is why he is content in any situation or when it may look to us that the timing is best for something else other that having our hearts circumcised. Sitting with and fellowshipping with the Lord in His Word is not always comfortable, but it is profitable. It is an easy and light thing to add to our life, fellowshipping with the Lord and allowing Him to circumcise our hearts; it’s much easier than the burdens and weight the world adds on which many of them have no business being burdens and concerns we are meant to be involved in. Just as with the nations which the Lord drove out from before Israel, they had added the burdens of the world, the worlds value system and actions in their life and it destroyed the very fabric of their civilization, the yoke was not easy and it was not light. Our flesh which shows surfaces often times in immorality and unrighteousness is incredibly burdensome to our hearts when we walk according to our flesh. The war of the flesh and the spirit, that we may learn to trust Him and not our flesh; Philippians 4:11-13.

The Lord desires that we will allow Him to do an inward work in our heart; that He may replace things that shouldn’t be there. There are certain things of our flesh which we have been carrying around all these years which the Lord desires to be taken off, so that Spiritual Growth may abound in our life. This circumcision of our heart and love for the Lord and His Word is what keeps us from being stiff-necked, hard hearted, and hard headed, Deuteronomy 10:16; then the character traits of God’s Agape Love, Galatians 5:22-23, are able to be edified in and through our lives.

What I have and am given is because of nothing of myself, but it’s all Jesus – humility. God’s warning label: that we don’t trust in our flesh or the strength of the world, because it’s a broken reed.