INSPIRE Devotionals
With Emmanuel Afiawari
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Topic: A THOROUGH SELF-AUDIT (Part 2)!
Memory Verse: "Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?" - 2 Corinthians 13:5 NIV
Bible Text: Luke 2:44 NIV
44. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends.
INSPIRATION: Assumptions, when made wrongly, have destructive tendency. Many are victims today of the vicious attacks instigated by wrong assumption. Once good friends have become sworn enemies; once blissfully peaceful unions have gone south due to wrong insinuations and malicious decoding of innuendos.
It was William Shakespeare, in Macbeth, who quoted Duncan as saying, "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face." Stop trying to be a mind reader; only God can with accuracy! Don't always think you're right all the time. Mary and Joseph found out how wrong they were about Jesus after a whole day had passed!
Give room for others to have their say. Subject every matter to an objective scrutiny. Test yourself and don't have an overblown ego of yourself. If you do, you're likely to self-destruct because you'd have developed self-sabotaging tendencies that you could have overlooked over time. The real danger of wrong assumption is that it not only destroys you, it messes with the mental health of those you developed mistrust for.
TODAY'S TAKE HOME:
Be careful what and who you throw away. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves" - Philippians 2:3 NIV
PRAYER: Dear Lord, please deliver me from self-inflicted pain and self-sabotaging tendencies due largely to wrong assumptions. Help me to purge my mind to be able to think right and to value relationships and people you surround me with. Give me a large and accommodating heart that accepts people willingly in spite of their imperfections, in Jesus name.
