Read Love Worth Finding 4 November 2022 Daily Devotional
TOPIC: Only Treating the Symptoms?
“You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Psalm 16:11
PONDER THIS
Suppose you go to the doctor with a terrible headache, fever, pain, and swelling in your arm. It seems like an infection on the inside, but all the doctor does is give you strong medicine to kill the pain and reduce the fever. If he never deals with the infection, he’s not a good doctor. I want him to kill the pain if he can, but he only really helps me if he gets at the infection, which is the real problem.
People who are trying to be happy primarily in this life are only treating the symptoms. If you’ll seek after righteousness, you’ll be dealing with the infection. Seek righteousness and then you’ll be happy. What you need is to have the deepest need of your heart and your life met. It is to worship God. It is to drink of the Spirit. It is to feed on the Word of God. That’s the deepest need of your heart, and it will only be met in Jesus.
- When have you chased after worldly happiness?
- In what ways have you experienced joy as you began to follow Jesus?
PRACTICE THIS
Make a list of all the things you need or want to do in the next week. Write next to this list the quote from today’s devotional “The deepest need of your heart will be met only in Jesus.” Place this note in a place where you can see it regularly.
Thanks for reading Love Worth Finding 4 November 2022 Daily Devotional by Adrian Rogers. For more from Love Worth Finding and Pastor Adrian Rogers, please visit www.lwf.org.
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Salvation Prayer
Have you ever made Jesus the Lord and Savior of your life?
If not, pray this prayer and start a new life in Christ.
Dear God, I come to You in the Name of Jesus. I admit that I am not right with You, and I want to be right with You. I ask You to forgive me of all my sins. The Bible says if I confess with my mouth that “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead, I will be saved (Rom. 10:9). I believe with my heart and I confess with my mouth that Jesus is the Lord and Savior of my life. Thank You for saving me! In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.
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