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Monday... Do we really know what to do?


Psalm 67:6-7 (NLT), "Then the earth will yield its harvests, and God our God, will richly bless us. Yes, God bless us, and people all over the world will fear him."

Monday... Do we really know what to do?

We think we do, but do we really?

I love how the Psalmist puts it in Psalm 67:6-7 (NLT). It says, "Then the earth will yield its harvests, and God our God, will richly bless us. Yes, God bless us, and people all over the world will fear him."


We think we do, we really do think we know what to do. We think we have the answers and that all our blessings come because of us. We think we know what to do.

Over in the book of Jeremiah the kings of Judah and Israel would bring Jeremiah a prophet of God to them to tell them what God said to him about their situation. I think they wanted affirmation that they knew what to do but they never listened to what Jeremiah said.

Jeremiah 37:2 says, "But neither King Zedekiah nor his attendants nor the people who were left in the land listened to what the LORD said though Jeremiah." He kept telling them that the King of Babylon was going to come and destroy their cities because they had not listened to God and had been disobedient. And they kept asking and Jeremiah kept telling. They thought he didn't know what he was talking about and they kept doing what they thought was best, what they wanted to do.

It sounds like a lot of us who are living today.

Now king Zedekiah asked the Pharaoh of Egypt to come to help them and he started coming. It seemed like a great idea. Yes the king had made these plans but it seemed that he still wanted affirmation from God so he sent for Jeremiah to come to reaffirm that what he was doing was the right thing.

But verses 6-7 says, "Then the LORD gave this message to Jeremiah: 'This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: 'Pharaoh's army is about to return to Egypt, though he came to help you.'" Now the Babylonian army had withdrawn their siege of Jerusalem. It seemed to work. But then verse 8, Jeremiah says "Then the Babylonians will come back and capture this city and burn it to the ground."

We think we know how to handle situations in life so we don't turn to God but that is a mistake.

Psalm 67:6-7 (NLT) says, "Then the earth will yield its harvests, and God our God, will richly bless us. Yes, God bless us, and people all over the world will fear him."

No matter how good the plan is we still need God's blessing. God wants to show us and the world what a difference he makes when we turn to him. "Then the earth will yield its harvests, and God our God, will richly bless us. Yes, God bless us, and people all over the world will fear him."

So what do we do? Let's turn to him. Let him have our life and ask him to bless us. Yes, God wants to bless us. Yes, "God bless us, and people all over the world will fear him." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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