06/11/2020
JUNE DEVOTIONAL
”Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4
At night, dew descends on the plants in nature, watering and reinvigorating them. Without this dew, the plants would die.1 So it is with our spiritual lives. In Teach Us to Pray, Andrew Murray explains that we cannot sustain our spiritual life on our own. We need God’s presence to fall on us, so that we are spiritually watered, refreshed, and able to bear fruit.
In Psalm 16:11, the Psalmist tells us that in God’s presence there is fullnessof joy. The word “fullness” here is from the Hebrew word “soba,” which is used in the Bible to mean “satiety, abundance, fullness.” 2 We know that Jesus came to give us abundant life (John 10:10). But for us to live in that abundance and fullness, we must be abiding in Him. We must be in His presence. We cannot manifest this fullness on our own. One of the enemy’s main goals is to prevent us from being in God’s presence. Without God’s presence, we will be lackluster, weak Christians. We must fight for our time to be in God’s presence through reading His Word, praying, worshiping, and mediating on Scripture.
If we have been carried away by the cares of this world or if we feel that our lives are lacking fullness, let us intentionally turn our hearts back to the only One who can fill us. Let us seek first God and His Kingdom. Jesus is enough. In His presence, we find fullness of joy and the abundant life for which He died to give us.
Dena N. Sites, Esq., CLS-OC Board Member
[1]Cowman, L. B. (1997). Streams in the Desert. Zondervan.
[2]Strong’s Concordance, https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7648&t=NKJV
