Daily Devotional For Today 11 November 2022 : Inspirational Message and Prayer

DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY 11 NOVEMBER 2022: INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE AND PRAYER

Read Daily Devotional For Today 11 November 2022

Topic: Search Me, Lead Me

Scripture:  Luke 11: 24-26

On this day one hundred and one years ago, the world declared peace ending the First World War. It is memorable for me as my father had been drafted and ordered to report to the train station that morning only to be told to go home as the war was over. No one thought that there would ever be a war like that again, and yet there was.

A few years ago, because of a war in one part of the world that made people wonder if it, too, would become a world war, one of my young students asked why people fought with one another. Another of my students, a girl nine years old said, “It’s because people like power.” Pretty astute for a nine year old! What about us? Do we have a need for power? Are there elements in us that we would rather not acknowledge?

God knows us completely. He knows our thoughts, our fears, our dreams, our hopes, and he knows our faults and failings, our angers and jealousies. This psalm asks God to search our hearts and to root out any wickedness that he finds, and lead us in the path he has planned for us since we were “knit in our mother’s womb.”

If we are to see an end to war, we need to root out hatred and jealousy, the need for power and greed. We need to replace them with the will to acknowledge that each and every one of us is made in the image and likeness of God and that we all have a right to live in peace.

Christ is the King of Peace, and yet we Christians are not always peaceful images of Christ in today’s world. Let us work a little harder to love one another and bring justice to a world that is in desperate need of it.

Prayer For Today
Lord, you know our hearts. Help each of your children to turn their hearts to justice, peace and love. Amen.