December 20, 2021
Daily Devotion:
"As We Worship..."
Psalms 145:1-3
The Passion Translation
1My heart explodes with praise to you! Now and forever my heart bows in worship to you, my King and my God! 2Every day I will lift up my praise to your name with praises that will last throughout eternity. 3Lord, you are great and worthy of the highest praise!
Satan wars against us and one of his tactics is to make us feel bad about ourselves. He reminds us of all our failures and weaknesses, but we need to remember that God knows all about us and He loves us anyway. We fight many battles, but probably the greatest battle we fight is the one with ourselves. We may struggle with feeling that we should have accomplished more in life than we have; we may feel we’ve failed in many ways. We can’t change anything by being frustrated and struggling within.
Only God can change us as we trust in Him. He will fight our battles and win. Our part is to believe, cooperate with Him, and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. It is difficult to get to the place where we can be honest with ourselves about our sins and failures, our inabilities and fallibilities, and yet still know that we are seen as being right with God because of what Jesus did for us when He died for us and rose from the dead. A tremendous key to tapping into peace and spiritual power.
We can be changed as we worship and behold God—not as we look at ourselves, adding up our many flaws.
