Devotion for Friday, January 31, 2020

“For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle the ox
while he is threshing.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He? Or is He
speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the
plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing
the crops” (1 Corinthians 9:9-10).

Continue in hope. The world will
go the way the world will go. The generations will come and go until the final
day. Live in the hope you have been given through the salvation which is yours
in Christ. Know that in Him you have the eternal hope of salvation. Know that
all things must come to pass according to the will of the Father. So continue
in the hope that you have been given.

Lord, teach me not to be tossed about by the winds of this age. Things
come and bad things happen and I am told this must mean something. Let me
instead focus upon the life You have given me that I may abide in You and You
in me, learning to become like Christ. Help me through those times where I feel
the pressure of this world to hold fast to the hope You have already given.

Lord Jesus, You have taught us to
not be anxious for tomorrow. Teach me to live this day You have given me that I
may do what is pleasing in the Father’s sight. Guide me according to Your
never-failing principles to simply live the life You have given and live into
the life You give by grace. Guide me, O Lord, in the everlasting way of truth
that I may humbly abide in You. Amen.