LOVE ISLAND - WEEK FIVE - DAY TWO
Hello and welcome to your Daily Devos following our Love Island messages at 29:11! Take some time today to read through the scriptures provided, meditate on the lessons learned that are applicable for all of us from this week and journal your prayers. Have an amazing week 29:11 Church!
THEME SCRIPTURE:
Matthew 19:1-6 NLT
When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went down to the region of Judea east of the Jordan River. Large crowds followed him there, and he healed their sick. Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife for just any reason?” “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’” And he said, “‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.””
TODAY’S PASSAGE:
Generous in love—God, give grace! Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad record. Scrub away my guilt, soak out my sins in your laundry. I know how bad I’ve been; my sins are staring me down. Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean, scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don’t look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don’t throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I’ll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I’ll let loose with your praise.”
Psalms 51:1-3, 7-15 MSG
REFLECTION:
How many times have you heard an empty apology? Kids can sometimes be the easiest to tell with this. My son or daughter will try to say "I'm sorry" and say it with a snotty tone instead of really meaning it in hopes to get out of a punishment. But we all know an apology means nothing unless it comes from a repentant heart. King David gives us a picture of true repentance in Psalm 51. What truly made David "a man after God's own heart" was his repentance, not his perfection.
The truth in how this scripture is written is David doesn't just say, "I'm sorry." He really means it. God doesn’t expect us to be perfect but he does want us to make things right. Taking the road of humility is apologizing even if you feel like it isn’t your fault. Saying you’re sorry has the power to bring resolution to any relationship. It may not happen overnight, but just like David, God meets us right where we are at when we have a true spirit of repentance.
THOUGHTS TO PONDER:
Take some time to think over the spirit of true repentance. Have you said “I am sorry” recently? If not, who do you need to say it to?
