Facebook on your lips?
LAMPLIGHT DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path”
Psalm 119:105 (NIV).
“Living From the Eternal Perspective”
A Devotional From
PATHH Ministries
DATE:
Tueasday January 4, 2011
HEADING
Facebook in your mouth?
By Rev. Teddy A Jones
TEXT (Joshua 1: 8)
8 Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and
succeed in all you do.[NLT]
Never stop reading The Book of the Law [a] he gave you. Day and night you must think about what it says. If you obey it completely, you and Israel will be able to take this land.[CEV]
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.
COMMENTARY
The story goes that Henry Ford once hired an efficiency expert to evaluate his company. After a few weeks, the expert made his report, which was highly favorable except for one thing. "It's that man down the hall," said the expert. "Every time I go by his office he's just sitting there with his feet on his deck. He's wasting your money." "That man," replied Mr. Ford, "once had an idea that saved us millions of dollars. At the time, I believe his feet were planted right where they are now."- Reader's Digest, August, 1981.
When God presented Joshua with the reality check , that Moses was dead and it was time to move on, he gave him a blueprint for success. Take no exits Joshua, the way is marked out for you. The other thing God did was to suggest the content of Joshua’s musings and his cogitations and his speech. Keep feeding on a constant mental diet of the law. Punctuate your thoughts and your speech with the revealed mind of God.
It is well established that whatever we give our minds over to the spirit of that thing comes to dwell in us. In a time when reading was not the mode of transmitting information but speaking and listening Joshua was encouraged to have the law dripping from his lips like a leaking faucet.
Here, as in Psalm 1 and in Jer. 17 among others we see a clear link between the imbibing of the Word and success in one’s endeavours. This is not some kind of genie in a bottle suggestion, rather divine, covenant backed principle.
Something to Meditate on:
Are my musings and my speech informed more by facebook[as an ambassador of the entertainment kingdom] than God’s word?
A decision I need to make
How do I practically preserve the meditation on the Word in the busyness of life in the 21st century?
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path”
Psalm 119:105 (NIV).
“Living From the Eternal Perspective”
A Devotional From
PATHH Ministries
DATE:
Tueasday January 4, 2011
HEADING
Facebook in your mouth?
By Rev. Teddy A Jones
TEXT (Joshua 1: 8)
8 Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and
succeed in all you do.[NLT]
Never stop reading The Book of the Law [a] he gave you. Day and night you must think about what it says. If you obey it completely, you and Israel will be able to take this land.[CEV]
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.
COMMENTARY
The story goes that Henry Ford once hired an efficiency expert to evaluate his company. After a few weeks, the expert made his report, which was highly favorable except for one thing. "It's that man down the hall," said the expert. "Every time I go by his office he's just sitting there with his feet on his deck. He's wasting your money." "That man," replied Mr. Ford, "once had an idea that saved us millions of dollars. At the time, I believe his feet were planted right where they are now."- Reader's Digest, August, 1981.
When God presented Joshua with the reality check , that Moses was dead and it was time to move on, he gave him a blueprint for success. Take no exits Joshua, the way is marked out for you. The other thing God did was to suggest the content of Joshua’s musings and his cogitations and his speech. Keep feeding on a constant mental diet of the law. Punctuate your thoughts and your speech with the revealed mind of God.
It is well established that whatever we give our minds over to the spirit of that thing comes to dwell in us. In a time when reading was not the mode of transmitting information but speaking and listening Joshua was encouraged to have the law dripping from his lips like a leaking faucet.
Here, as in Psalm 1 and in Jer. 17 among others we see a clear link between the imbibing of the Word and success in one’s endeavours. This is not some kind of genie in a bottle suggestion, rather divine, covenant backed principle.
Something to Meditate on:
Are my musings and my speech informed more by facebook[as an ambassador of the entertainment kingdom] than God’s word?
A decision I need to make
How do I practically preserve the meditation on the Word in the busyness of life in the 21st century?
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