Devotion for Monday, December 30, 2019

“Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then
take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it
never be!  Or do you not know that the
one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The
two shall become one flesh” (1 Corinthians 6:15-16).

Through the Lord we are made
family in the body of Christ.  The Lord
intends a tight and everlasting bond.  You
choose your friends, but your family are chosen for you.  This is why the Lord teaches us to pray, “Our
Father.”  The Lord has a reason for why
He does what He does.  He has reasons for
all of His laws.  Come to the Lord and learn
from Him that You may walk in His ways and be His family.

Lord, I make things more difficult than they need to be.  I also do not live as though everything is
Yours and all things are in Your hands. 
Guide me, O Lord, in the way of truth that I may now and always live
according to Your purposes.  Teach me
Your ways, Lord, that I would walk with You now and forever in the way of truth
which You established from the beginning.

Lord Jesus, You know the
struggles I have in this life.  Lead me O
Lord in the way You know I need to go that I would now and always walk with
You.  Abide in me so that I may see in
You those things I need and follow in Your example.  Teach me to become as You lived, knowing that
what I will be shall be revealed, but that I will then be like You.  Amen.