Day 5

DAILY DEVOTIONAL 5

Rev. Cindy Brubaker

Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes. - Matthew 6:34

THE MESSAGE:

In an early episode of “The Crown”, the ill King George takes his future son-in-law, Prince Philip, out shooting to explain to him that the titles and all are not the job. He says, “She (Princess Elizabeth) is the job. She is the essence of your duty. Loving her. Protecting her.”

One anxious day I heard the Lord say, “I want you to rest in Me. Trust Me. Believe Me. Love Me. This is the essence of your duty, the fulfillment of your work - your life in Me.”

I was blown away. The job for me has always been the Lord and everything else: family, church, praying, preaching, ministering, loving, giving, forgiving, fixing, and more. But I do not have to divide my attention and life up into so many exhausting pieces. I can choose to make the Lord my sole focus, the essence of my life, and the Lord will lead me in paths of righteousness, restore my soul, and make me light in dark places.

What would it be like to make the Lord your God the sole focus of your life today?

Good Shepherd of my soul, I am tired. Teach me to rest in and trust and believe You. I want to love You more and know Your love working in and through me. I surrender all the pieces of my life to You now. Holy Spirit, help me to give You my undivided attention so that Christ’s life will be in me a light to the world, in Jesus’ name. Amen.