Joshua 1:8 // Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
It’s been said that the greatest commodity that you and I have in this world is our time. When you think about what we spend most of our time on each day, very little actually brings us the return that we are looking for. It’s something that we can never get back if wasted.
However, one of the greatest investments you and I can make with our time is when we commit ourselves to prayer. Not just when we first wake up, but to do so whenever we can, because doing so demonstrates to God that our time with Him is what we value most.
We serve a God that wants us to reflect His nature and image throughout the earth. To reflect His glory to a world so desperately in need of Him. But the only way to do so is to spend time with Him in prayer. You see, it is in prayer that God reveals truth to us. It’s where He reveals His treasure. Those secret things that cannot be found in a life that is committed to the world.
No matter how hard we try, Google can’t provide what our souls long for each day. Our phones can’t provide them either. God is the only source that can provide us with what we need and that is why He is worth our full devotion every opportunity we get.
To devote yourself to something means to meditate on it.
It is in prayer that God reveals truth to us. It’s where he reveals His treasure.
The Word meditate means to have your mind constantly focused on something; to spend time thinking deeply about it without any wavering. When our time with God is one that ceases from wavering, when it is not just an outline for our day, but it becomes the focus for our day, we are able to access a joy and a peace that is truly unshakable.
*This devotional is from A God First Life, written by Pastors Michael and Charla Turner
