Whole Heart Devotion

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9 About a week ago my husband woke up with a horrible headache.  I quickly went and doled him out an ibuprofen and hoped that the combination of the pain killer and his morning beverage (Mountain Dew) would ease the pain.  It wasn't too long before he was asking for another ibuprofen.  An hour later, he asked for a third. I couldn't imagine how bad his head must have been throbbing after taking so many pain killers and still no relief.  After I dished out the third dose of medicine, it occurred to me that perhaps I needed to make sure the medicine was still good.  Come to find out, that half empty bottle of ibuprofen expired three and a half years ago!  No wonder they weren't doing him any good! I've met some Christians that appeared to have been left on the shelf past their expiration date! They had totally lost their effectiveness fo

"Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.'"  Matt. 5:33 I've promised myself and God that I wouldn't become a slave to writing these devotional thoughts.  I don't want to manufacture a Word from the Lord out of a desire to produce quantity, rather than genuine quality renderings of my interaction with God . . . hence the past week of silence!  But leave it to God, in the quietness of my lonely little church pew, He used my hubby-preacher to reignite my thought processes. As I sat listening to a powerful sermon from Acts 5:1-11 about the pitfalls of breaking a promise to God, my mind wandered past the story of Ananias and Sapphira and their disobedience to give God a financial gift that they had promised to Him.  My mind ventured back over the course of my thirty-three years on this earth and the numerous amounts of promises or vows that I have personally made t