SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH
why we need to start each day with Him. Here Solomon says “Trust in the LORD with all your heart (v. 5). Verse 6 goes on to say if you will “in all your ways acknowledge God…He will make your ways straight!” Confess and recognize the authority of His claims that what He said, He will do! Why you can know…
B. God makes sense out of the senseless when we trust Him. Nothing happens by accident. God is sovereign and His sovereignty excludes any element of chance. The truth is that we can and must rely on God in every situation in life. The more senseless life becomes, the greater our need is, to trust in God. Romans 8:28 says: "And we know that all things work together for good to those that love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." Its why thirdly…
DO NOT BE WISE IN YOUR OWN EYES IN 2020 BUT WISE IN HIM (v. 7-8)
A. Keep your composure. Verse 7 says, “Fear the Lord and turn away from evil”, we must continually ask ourselves in 2020: “Is the direction of my life consistent with the direction God wants for me”? When Jonathan Edwards (influencer of America’s First Great Awakening) was a young man, he asked this and made 5 Resolutions to live by faithfully:
1. Resolved to live with all my might for God while I live.
2. Resolved to never lose a moment of time, but to improve it.
3. Resolved to never do anything which I should despise or think meanly of in
another person.
4. Resolved to never do anything out of revenge.
5. Resolved to never do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
I would suggest the resolutions of Jonathan Edwards would be good resolutions for every one of us to make as we begin a New Year! For its important to…
B. Keep your loyalty to God! Prov. 16:7 says, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.” A “thousandfold blessing comes from God” (Deut. 1:11) and the thief (Satan) has to give up “sevenfold” (Prov. 6:31) when he is found. With Double 20s, let’s claim a Double Return for our Past Trouble in 2020 as you fourthly…