- 2 Samuel 20 Daily DEVO And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him. When he was taken out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. 2 Samuel 20:12-13 – While this passage is a bit graphic, I felt it had a message within it worth sharing. It asks us today what is it in our life that keeps us and those around us from moving forward in the direction God is leading us? We see in our passage the body of Amasa causing everyone to stop and stare, keeping them from moving forward. That is until someone moved the body off the path; then it no longer kept them from moving forward. I’d encourage you to do the same with whatever is in your path keeping you from moving forward. Self doubt, sinful habits, unforgiveness; all these and others things can have this negative effect on our walk with God. Lift whatever is in your path up to God and have Him begin the process of helping you remove it from your story. We must keep moving forward after God and whatever is holding us from that needs to go. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 451
- Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, “We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!” So all the men of Israel withdrew from David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem. 2 Samuel 20:1-2 – How quickly do you follow the voices of others? How do you know if their voice is one to follow quickly? Here the people of Israel simply heard the voice of one of their own saying to go in a certain direction and many followed it without question. While we have the whole story given to us in scripture and we can see the wrong-ness of their choice to follow the voice of Sheba, which voice have you been following too quickly and how do you know if you should be following it? Here are some voices you could be following: your heart, culture, a friend, what’s comfortable, wisdom, scripture. How do you know if you should listen to them? Ask are the words they are saying something Jesus would say? Jesus would never say, “follow your heart,” scripture says our heart is deceitful. Jesus would never say, “do what feels good.” There’s a lot of voices saying a lot of things that Jesus would never say. Those voices are voices we should not follow. Yet, those voices that speak the words of Jesus into our story, listen deeply to their words and be willing to follow. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1879
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