Saturday... They go together. David writes in Psalm 24:5 (NLT), "They will receive he Lord's blessing and have a right relationship with God their savior." Blessing and relationship go together. You know that, don't you? Blessing and relationship go together. And when you don't cultivate, you ignore, you don't spend time with, the blessings in a relationship slowly slip away. Amos 6:1 (NIV) says, "Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria." It is so easy to get so secure and complacent to the point that we lose the benefits that go along with our relationships. That is what happened with Israel. Because they slowly turned away from their relationship with God, He turned away from them and Amos writes in verse 14, "For the Lord God Almighty declares, 'I will stir up a nation against you, Israel.' " Now it is so easy to became secure and complacent in our relationship with God and there is so ...
A positive reflection for a new day...