UCB WORD FOR TODAY 19TH JULY 2025 – (SATURDAY DAILY DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE)
Read UCB Word For Today 19th July 2025 Daily Devotional by United Christian Broadcasters
TOPIC: Become Willing to Change (3)
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‘Search me, O God, and know my heart.’
Psalm 139:23 NKJV
Change must happen inside you before it can happen around you. In an old Peanuts comic strip, Lucy tells Charlie Brown she would like to change the world. So, Charlie asks her, ‘Where would you start?’ In typical Lucy fashion, she replies, ‘I would start with you.’ Think about it: when we have marital problems, we sometimes pray, ‘Lord, help my spouse to change!’ But maybe things will improve when you’re willing to pray, ‘Lord, help me to change!’
Changing the atmosphere and dynamics in your home usually starts with changing your own actions and reactions. The Bible says, ‘Be tender-hearted, and keep a humble attitude…Don’t retaliate…pay them back with a blessing…[and] God…will grant you his blessing’ (1 Peter 3:8-9 NLT). When we don’t like something, we want everybody – except us – to change! The truth is, we’re resistant to change. In The Secret Garden, novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett puts it like this: ‘At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, and then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done – then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.’
To change your world, you must first change yourself. The psalmist prayed, ‘Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting’ (Psalm 139:23-24 NKJV). As you begin to change for the better, others will notice and react to you accordingly. So, make this your prayer today: ‘Lord, let the change I seek begin in me!’
FURTHER READING: Esther 1-2, Romans 10
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