- For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust. Psalm 102:14 – Even the intro to the psalm shows the agony within the heart of the writer. That this was a psalm meant for the servant of God who is faint from affliction and is pouring their heart out before the Lord. See though the words in our verse above. While navigating his own calamities, the psalmist speaks of the city of God. How he held the rumble and dust of the afflicted city dear still to him. What all is this getting at? What we have is someone navigating a hardship, yet still caring about the hardships of others. He knew it wasn’t just him going through difficulties, but he could look out beyond himself to the people of God and see the difficulties they were facing too. While certainly a challenge as a follower of God, we too need to be able to look up beyond ourselves and our troubles to see the troubles of others around us. Your family may be struggling, but we can still pray for other families with struggles. Your job may be a nightmare, but you can still love people at your work who are in the nightmare with you. Jesus Himself was the perfect example of this, for while hanging on the cross He sought the forgiveness of the soldiers who crucified Him and made sure His own mother was taken care of. Take your troubles to the Lord always, and be willing to lift your eyes off from yourself and your troubles to see the needs of those around you as well. For if having difficulties in life gave us the allowance to hold back from our mission, then we’d never get anywhere with the gospel. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3516
- Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord: Psalm102:18 – The psalmist sought to record this message so that those who weren’t following after God yet, or those who weren’t even alive yet, would know of the power and goodness of God. We must realize there is a generation of God’s people yet to come. Could be that they are just our future children or grandchildren that haven’t even been born yet. They could be the people that are to soon come to know Jesus but haven’t met Him yet. Either way, how are you today readying yourself to put God’s Word in front of them? In our passage they were choosing to record it so they could read it. For us, are we ready to share our story with them? Are we prepared to share God’s Word with them? Are we ready to help them see Jesus like they need to? We need to keep in mind the health of this next generation of believers can either be damaged or increased by us today. Let’s do everything in our power to make this people to come have a better walk with God that we ever did. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1330
- Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, but you are the same, and your years have no end. The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you. Psalm 102:25-28 – Our God will never fade away or pass out of our story. Even things like the heavens and the earth will pass away someday, but our God will remain. While that’s beautiful to know, what help does this knowledge offer us today? As the final verse says, we can have confidence now knowing the next generations will remain secure because of the Lord. While God’s hand has been with us protecting, blessing, and guiding, we can know it will be the same for our children and their children and their children as well. Since our God has no end He will be with every generation that is to come after us just like He was for us. We can trust God then with our families and our ministries. We won’t always be here to watch over those after us, but the beautiful thing is we don’t have to be. God will stand watch, will protect, will direct, and will offer generations after us His salvation just like He did for us. What a good God we serve! I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2233
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