DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY 12 NOVEMBER 2022: INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE AND PRAYER
Read Daily Devotional For Today 12 November 2022
Topic: We Have Done Our Duty
Scripture: Luke 17: 10
If you work the hours you are paid for and complete the tasks you are asked to do, do you think you deserve praise, or just your paycheck? This is what Jesus is trying to tell us. Do we deserve praise for doing what we have promised to do? When I was in school, we were expected to do our homework, study, pay attention in class, not provoke the other students – or the teacher! Awards went to those who achieved over and above the expected.
If you played sports, the best players received an award. Today it seems as though everyone thinks they deserve an award just for showing up! People often spend a great deal of time on their phones or computers and not just for work, and then wonder why they didn’t get the promotion. Not only were they not doing over and above what they were being paid for, they’re not even doing their job. If we keep the commandments, do we expect God to be cheering?
We are only doing the minimum that we are asked to do. What glory is there in that? Remember that Jesus gave us a new commandment that we need to love others as he loves us. Are we following this commandment as well, or do we take it as a suggestion? Actually, many people today take the original Ten Commandments as suggestions! Where do you fall, where do I? Are we just doing our duty or are we trying to live a life based on Jesus’ law of love? Are we keeping the commandments – all of them, or just the ones we like? Are we unworthy servants, only doing our duty?
Prayer For Today
Lord, you have given us a path to follow that includes the commandments as well as Jesus’ command to love others. We often fall short. Thank you for continuing to forgive us and call us to do better and we ask you to help us as we struggle to walk along the way to you. Amen.
