In some countries, the rent index is the... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

Have I not written to you excellent things of counsels and knowledge, that I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth?
Proverbs 22:20–21

In some countries, the rent index is the guideline for setting monthly rents. My grandfather used to always stretch a string between two stakes before pulling a furrow and sowing carrots. And today, my wife sometimes measures me against my neighbour when she reproaches me for the fact that our car needs to be washed again ... Today, we find it difficult to have a guideline, a directive, a generally applicable set of values. We don’t want to be controlled by others but to be our own master and decide for ourselves. We claim this for the questions of our life and our faith – as well as in the question of God.

But God does not want us to live according to any guideline. That is why He has given us His ‘guidebook’, the Bible. In it we find the “words of truth”, and through it we learn His thoughts and His will.

When we engage with God’s guidebook, we learn that it is exclusively for our benefit. “You … gave them just ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,” believers once confessed before God (Nehemiah 9:13). And it is by these guidelines that God judges our lives. He determines what is a life worth living and how we can reach heaven. “This is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ” (1 John 3:23). There is still time and opportunity to change the guidebook for our lives. What prevents us from reading and obeying the Word of God? And why don’t we start today?

Today’s reading: 1 Kings 11:26-43 · John 9:1-12