Devotional for August 19

Bring Me to Your Holy Mountain

3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 43:3-5 (KJV)

The Morning Exhortation

Pursue the best things and resist the temptation to chase after vanities. If we pursue the best things, what we are now doesn’t matter as much as what we will become. If we fall into the habit of spending hours scrolling down the social media rabbit hole, we lose the opportunity to pursue what is better. Or maybe like me, its sitting in front of an Ultra-HD big screen watching and eating that is your greatest vain indulgence. The definition of worldliness in our day and age is that which distracts the head, heart, and hands from pursuing God’s best. Ruthlessly eliminate vanities! Vain time wasters only slow the becoming of who we are meant to be. Ask yourself what is best in this moment, and then choose to do it. (Ecclesiastes 1:1-2; Mark 8:36; Ecclesiastes 7:2-4; 1 Corinthians 9:24-27; 1 John 2:15-17; Colossians 3:2; James 1:22-25; Proverbs 16:3; Galatians 6:7; Psalm 1; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Proverbs 23:31-35; 1 Corinthians 12:31, 13:9-13; 1 Peter 4:1-7; Psalm 138:8; Philippians 2:13; 1 Peter 5:6-11)